Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
On that understanding, it hardly seems fair that he didn't place this as epigraph to Swann's Way, and let generations consider whether a terser lens-grinder might show them as much more quickly.
On that understanding, it hardly seems fair that he didn't place this as epigraph to Swann's Way, and let generations consider whether a terser lens-grinder might show them as much more quickly.
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