“ For a long time I used to go to bed early. ”
Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (1913). copy citation
Author | Marcel Proust |
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Source | Swann's Way |
Topic | early bed |
Date | 1913 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7178/7178-h/7178-h.htm |
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“Translated From The French By C. K. Scott Moncrieff NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1922 CONTENTS OVERTURE COMBRAY SWANN IN LOVE PLACE-NAMES: THE NAME OVERTURE For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say "I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles V. This impression would persist for some moments after I was awake; it did not disturb my mind, but it lay like scales upon my eyes and prevented them from registering the fact that the candle was no longer burning.”
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