*Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain -Marcel Proust
Of course sexuality, nostalgia, literature, androgyny, musicology, deontology, rhetoric, francophilia, poetry, post-modernism and all the brave or craven want to take a slice of the diluvium that is Proust… let ‘em all gobble… close a lovely book… swell with a deeply-inspired subtlety… and continue through this gracious tortured world.
“It’s far more difficult to disfigure a great work or art than to create one.”
“For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.”
“…and I longed for the nails that riveted her to my consciousness to be driven deeper.”