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expediencies
Golo’s acquaintance and to chat with Geneviève de Brabant.
fuchsias,
like hands joined in prayer,
some quality beyond the power of words.
‘putting me on the right road’
Lavallière neckties,
Arabian Nights plates,
‘Caritas,’
in which one thirsts for something different from what one has,
in the thousand arrows by which our own Legrandin had instantaneously been stabbed and sickened, like a Saint Sebastian of snobbery:
(and was told that it was the andante movement of Vinteuil’s sonata for the piano and violin),
Swann was struck by her resemblance to the figure of Zipporah, Jethro’s Daughter,
Doge Loredan by Antonio Rizzo,
on whom he was looking now for the last time, that comprehensive gaze with which, on the day of his departure, a traveller strives to bear away with him in memory the view of a country to which he may never return.
Valse des Roses, the Pauvre Fou of Tagliafico