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March 4, 2021, 3:02 a.m.
- Description
- "I love this passage, because it finds such a simultaneously meaningful and absurd justification for Proust’s worship of the aristocracy: that leisure class was, for better or worse, Proust’s only available “source of concrete images” of the classless Utopia. So Proust wasn’t just a snob! — or, more accurately, that’s what snobbism was all along: an expression, like gossip, of the striving for a genuinely human existence."
