Wednesday, August 21, 2019
We teach you Proust
Downstairs I go after shelving in the fiction section of the library.
"I just read "Remembrance of Things Past"!" I exclaim randomly to the first person I run into.
"Really." They reply. "Did you like it?"
"It was fine."
"I just read "Remembrance of Things Past"" I tell someone else a few moments later.
"Wow." They say.
"I just read "Remembrance of Things Past"" I say again, to a new person as soon as I can find one.
"My goodness. That's really something."
"Yes it is." I say.
"I just read "Remembrance of Things Past"" I say to someone else as I come upon them.
"OH!" They say.
Then, "All of it?" They ask.
I shrug. "It's only four words."
I've read it, and now so have you, four times no less.
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