June 10: Summarize Proust

My seatmate said, “That book is pretty big-

What’s it about?” I wish I knew

How to describe without seeming a prig

Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu.

“The longest greatest longest novel ever written?”

“Reflections on names and shifting perceptions

That chronicle the joy of being smitten

By literature and love at its inception?”

“The book my friend and I had planned to read

The summer he abruptly passed away,

Thus kindling in me an impassioned need

To savor every volume past ‘Swann’s Way?’”

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