Pijus’s Reviews > Remembrance of Things Past: Vol 1 > Status Update

First volume finished. Some of the sentences in this book contain more insight, playfulness, humour, imagination, beauty and expressiveness than entire books. That doesn't stop it from, at times, being ridiculously boring. The fact that this volume is supposedly the most engaging and interesting fills me with a little bit of dread. But we move

Je t'aime

No longer just remembering things, finally amirite?

"Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it simply raises to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those other pleasures which we find in the tender glances, the kisses, of the woman by our side, that it seems to is, more than anything else, a sort of transport of gratitude for her kindness of heart and for her touching predilection for us..." Can't fit a single sentence of this book

"Undoubtedly what is thus palpitating in the depths of
my being must be the image, the visual memory which,
being linked to that taste, is trying to follow it into my
conscious mind. But its struggles are too far off, too
confused and chaotic; scarcely can I perceive the neutral
glow into which the elusive whirling medley of stirred-up
colours is fused." Bro is talking about a piece of cake dipped in tea

It begins...