Friday, May 10, 2019

Book Excerpt for the Day


    “Oh, horrible!” I exclaimed to myself: “Does anyone really imagine that these motor-cars are as smart as the old carriage-and-pair?  I dare say.  I am too old now – but I was not intended for a world in which women shackle themselves in garments that are not even made of cloth.  To what purpose shall I walk among these trees if there is nothing left now of the assembly that used to meet beneath the delicate tracery of reddening leaves, if vulgarity and fatuity have supplanted the exquisite thing that once their branches framed?  Oh, horrible!”


    (from Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust)

  8*/10.  The complete review is here.
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