“She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called petites madeleines, which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim's shell. And soon, mechanically, weary after a dull day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place…at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory…” — Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 1: Swann's Way.
I had no idea she had married: I had always assumed that it was lesbian tendencies that compelled her to hang out with you in a necro-masochistic kinda way. Who was hubby and what'd he do?
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If Obama takes the White House, I'm guessing that most of us FCP'ers will be shipped down to Gitmo.
I think one of us won't. The others deserve it.
It'll be a good place to catch up on my reading.
think bubbah will let you?
I did my time with you, Pepe. You never complained of ill-treatment. I let you read your Proust whwnever it didn't interfere with my needs.
Well I thought it would be possible to put these madeleines to better use than you wanted.
“She sent out for one of those short, plump little cakes called petites madeleines, which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrim's shell. And soon, mechanically, weary after a dull day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid, and the crumbs with it, touched my palate than a shudder ran through my whole body, and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place…at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory…”
— Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 1: Swann's Way.
Lips. Heh.
BTW, merde d'oiseau is getting a divorce. Did you know her Proustian hubby? He really blew it.
I had no idea she had married: I had always assumed that it was lesbian tendencies that compelled her to hang out with you in a necro-masochistic kinda way. Who was hubby and what'd he do?
she liked my man-boobs, it's true
Proustians tend to have sharply shanky figures. Probably why this eponymous Merde d'Oiseau is now searching for her man-boob.
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