Marcel Proust +++ Remembrances of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time
The power of objects or experiences, sometimes seemingly insignificant, was well captured by Marcel Proust in the experience of the little madeleine in The Remembrances of Things Past. The narrator suddenly recalls a vivid experience of childhood through the taste of a madeleine: “When from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”
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