Bedtime Stories 7

And a poem found in the back of the same book

I’m going to finish Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust this summer - I’ve decided. I’ve pushed my way through the first half over the course of a year and now it’s the finale.

I’ve really loved it and felt it immediately a part of me - however it is quite long and richly embroidered. On violets in the spring:

“… while here and there a violet with a blue beak b…