The very beautiful and somewhat archetypal passage from Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust (p. 45-48). This is the part where he describes eating a “Madeleine” soaked in tea, and how it brought him into an indescribable place of pleasure and memory of childhood. It’s where the phrase “Proustian” comes from. The classic example is when two things happen to coi…
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