Back to AtD. Pynchon sidesteps---or sideswipes---Proust? p.870

[Mark Kohut]

Premise: Proust's great novel is great---or the first three books are [if you like Nabokov's judgment]---
for, among other reasons, it's insight into the human psychology of everhyone in it via "recaptured time" ---
last volume. 
 
AtD, p. 870 Is Pynchon alluding to Proust when he writes "Cyprian felt the sadness peculiar to the 
contemplation of recent time unrecapturable. Anything earlier, childhood, adolescence, they were done
with, he could get by without any of that---what he wanted back was last week, the week before."
 
Proust's 'nostalgia' for the past--unrecoverable and a good thing too? P: we live therefore die in time and have to live that death in timeness except in moments of timelessness ways. 
[from Blake, Rilke at least, maybe?}
 
Cyprian here has become some kind of exemplar, yes, so this judgment carries moral weight?
 
This reading I FELT the psychological truth of Cyprian's obsevation attributing it to getting older faster and 
not being too good on thinking about my past. 
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