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Acting
Adulthood
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Affectation
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Age
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Agoraphobia
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Albertine
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Allegory
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Anachronism
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Anticlericalism
Antiquity
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Archaic
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Arras
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Asparagus
Assassination
Association
Astrology
Asymmetry
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Attachment
Authenticity
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Automobiles
Avranches
Balbec
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Baptistery
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Bayeux
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Beauvais
Belfry
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Bergotte
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Bloodshed
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Books
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Brothel
Brou
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Cakes
Calmness
Capital
Captivity
Cards
Carqueville
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Ceiling
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Change
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Character
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Charm
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Chartres
Childhood
Chocolate
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Chromatics
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Collecting
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Cosmology
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Dance
Danger
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Deception
Deciphering
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Demarcation
Democracy
Desecration
Desire
Desire for woman
Dessert
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Detachment
Devotion
Dignity
Dimentionality
Dinner
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Doncières
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Duration
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Eighteenth Century
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Font
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Fourteenth Century
French
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Games
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Geography
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Grandmother
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Guilt
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Haunting
Hawthorns
Healing
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Hellenism
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History (Local)
Holidays
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Human existence
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Icons
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Ile-de-France
Illness
Illusion
Illustration
Imagery
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Immortality
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Impressions
Inattention
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Incompleteness
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Inscription
Insects
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Insignificance
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Jewels
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Names
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Natural
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Nineteenth Century
Norman
Normandy
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Old France
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Padua
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Thirteenth Century
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Twelfth Century
Twentieth Century
Twenty-First Century
Ugliness
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Valor
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Vatican
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Voluntary/Involuntary
Wall
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Water
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Activities in the Swann circle
Activities with little band of girls; Near end of first Balbec visit
Admittance into the Swann circle
Admittance into the Swann household
After Albertine leaves; After first kiss with Albertine
After dinner observations; Near end of first Balbec visit
Albertine imitating Marcel's style of expression
Alone, on way to dinner with Saint-Loup at Doncières barracks
At a Guermantes reception
At Mme Verdurin's
At Verdurin salon, la Raspelière, with Charlus; second Balbec visit
At Verdurin salon, la Raspelière; second Balbec visit
At Verdurin salon; second Balbec visit
At Versailles with Albertine
Bedtime reading
Beginning of admittance to little band of girls
Beginning of Legrandin's defining moment as a snob
Bidding farewell to mother before first Balbec trip
Charlus and Mme Verdurin conversing; second Balbec visit
Charlus berating Marcel
Charlus' brothel visit to spy on Morel; second Balbec visit
Charlus on the British
Charlus on the war
Combray church apse
Combray church choir
Combray church neighborhood
Combray church porch
Combray church steeple
Combray church tapestries
Combray church treasures
Combray church windows
Combray landscape
Comparing Venice to Combray
Contemplating aristocracy
Contemplating aristocracy, military men
Contemplating Combray church
Contemplating experience of Vinteuil's sonata whle jealous of Mlle Vinteuil and Albertine
Contemplating M. Verdurin; second Balbec visit
Contemplating Morel and Charlus; second Balbec visit
Contemplating of new clothes for Albertine
Contemplating regional nobles; second Balbec visit
Contemplating relationships, connections
Contemplating vocation
Contemplating women and Past
Contemplation of an evening at Mme Verdurin's
Contemplation on writing, books, cathedrals
Contemplation on writing, literature
Contemplation sparked by a comment by M. de Guermantes
Contemplations at Guermantes' party
Contemplations sparked by conversation with M. de Cambremer, at Guermantes' party
Conversation with Charlus on the war
Conversation with Gilberte in Combray
Conversing with Brichot at Mme Verdurin's salon; second Balbec visit
Conversing with Charlus and Morel; second Balbec visit
Conversing with Charlus in wartime Paris
Conversing with Cottards; second Balbec visit
Conversing with leaves on sunken path; near end of first Balbec visit
Conversing with Saint-Loup; second Balbec visit
Conversing with the old and the young Mme de Cambremer; second Balbec visit
Conversing with the older Mme de Cambremer; second Balbec visit
Curé discussing church at Roussainville
Curé discussing Combray church history
Curé discussing Combray church window
Curé discussing view from Combray church belfry
Debate over Legrandin's snobbery or sincerity
Decision to attend afternoon party at Guermantes'
Decision to leave Venice
Describing morning outdoor sounds in Paris
Describing morning routine back in Paris, after second Balbec visit
Description of Captain Borodino, during visit with Saint-Loup at Doncières
Description of Gilberte's hair
Description of hawthorns, flowers, "Month of Mary"
Description of Hôtel Guermantes upon moving in
Description of new routine at Combray
Description of Saturday lunch anachronism
Description of the hawthorns on Swann's estate
Description of train ride back to Paris, after second Balbec visit
Desire to see Gilberte
Dinner at Doncières barracks with Saint-Loup
Dinner at Doncières hotel with Saint-Loup
Discussion with Albertine in motorcar
Dreaming
Early view of Albertine; First Balbec visit
Elstir's studio with Albertine; near end of first Balbec visit
Elstir's studio; First Balbec visit
End of Mass at Combray church; return home
Epiphany
Epiphany at Guermantes' party
Epiphany upon arrival at Guermantes' party
Fantasizing about Gisèle's possible romantic interest; Near end of first Balbec visit
Fantasy after first sighting of Mme de Guermantes; Mass
Fantasy of Gilberte, Bergotte
Father showing investment papers to M. de Norpois
Finding common element of formative impressions
First sighting of Mme de Guermantes; Mass
First train journey to Balbec
First visit to Balbec
First visit to Balbec - the hotel
First visit to Mme de Villeparisis' salon; first appearance in society with Mme de Guermantes
First visit to the salon of Mme Verdurin; second Balbec visit
Gondola ride in Venice
Imagining Balbec (before first visit)
Imagining Berma's singing (before theater visit)
Imagining Florence and Venice (before visit)
Imagining Guermantes circle before initiation
Interpreting dream of unidentified friend's treachery
Introduction of the Verdurins
Jaunt with Mme de Villeparisis to church at Carqueville; First Balbec visit
Just before first Balbec visit
Lecture on Combray and other cathedrals
Legrandin disclaiming knowledge of Guermantes
Leonie and Francoise gossiping
Léonie discussing Combray church with Curé
Lunch conversation with Gilberte and the Guermantes, at the Guermantes
Lunch with Saint-Loup and Rachel
Lunchtime memory
M. de Norpois' visit
Mass
Mass at Combray church
Meditation in room at Combray
Meditation on foreign city names, esp. Italian
Meditation on foreign city names, Italian, Balbec
Meditation on inverts
Meditation on names
Meditation on Names and Fairies prior to moving into Hôtel Guermantes
Meditation on Names prior to moving into Hôtel Guermantes
Meditation on Norman place names
Meditation sparked by Albertine's postcards from Versailles
Memory at grandmother's deathbed
Memory of Aunt Léonie
Memory of first ride to Charlus'
Memory sparked by espied comment of Charlus to Jupien
Mme de Guermantes to Swann
Morning routine in Venice
Mother speaking of grandmother
Mourning Albertine
Mourning for Albertine breaking in on moments in Venice
Near end of first Balbec visit
Near end of second Balbec visit
New Year's Day visits
Observation at first visit to Guermantes
Observation of Jupien's brothel
Observation of Mme Verdurin
Observation of the Guermantes set
Observation sparked by a comment by M. de Guermantes
Observations at Guermantes' party
Observations sparked by observations at Guermantes' party
Observing Charlus and Jupien in courtyard
Observing Françoise's behavior upon moving into Hôtel Guermantes
Observing M. de Guermantes during first visit
Observing M. de Guermantes upon moving into Hôtel Guermantes
Observing sea during second Balbec visit
On the local train to/from Balbec; second visit
On train to Maineville; second Balbec visit
On way to dinner with Saint-Loup; Regret over Mme de Stermaria
One of Mme de Guermantes "latest" after a dinner party
Paris household during wartime
Picnic on the Guermantes way
Planning first trip to Balbec
Predicting weather
Reading
Reading Bergotte
Reading Journal of the Goncourts while falling asleep
Reflecing on Albertine's visit in Paris
Reflecting on time at home while Albertine tours Paris
Reflection on a luncheon at the Guermantes
Reflection on Albertine's behavior after first kiss
Reflection on Albertine's visit in Paris; presaging living with her in future
Reflection on aristocracy and inner circles
Reflection on art in Venice
Reflection on art of acting on first seeing a Berma performance
Reflection on Charlus' perversion
Reflection on Combray sparked by a commend made by M. de Guermantes
Reflection on discussion with Brichot at Mme Verdurin's
Reflection on family wisdom
Reflection on first kiss with Albertine
Reflection on Francoise after killing chickeb
Reflection on Françoise after overhearing her conversation with Guermantes' footman
Reflection on Françoise's "true" French cousins during wartime
Reflection on Françoise's habits in Paris
Reflection on getting truth about Albertine from Andrée
Reflection on Guermantes parties
Reflection on Guermantes set; about to leave party
Reflection on hearing Vinteuil's sonata at Mme Verdurin's
Reflection on Jupien's niece
Reflection on Mme de Guermantes
Reflection on Saint-Loup during café dinner
Reflection on Saint-Loup's death
Reflection on Saint-Loup's enlistment efforts
Reflection on Saint-Loup's split with Rachel, jealousy
Reflection on Swann's remarks at a Guermantes reception
Reflection on wandering in wartime Paris
Reflection on wartime character
Reflections at home in Paris
Reflections on aristocracy arising from first visit to Guermantes
Remembering contemplations while housebound
Remembering dream sparked by observations of Mme de Guermantes in Paris street
Remembering earlier fantasy of Mme de Guermantes upon moving into Hôtel Guermantes; prefiguring entry into Guermantes circle
Remembering intuitions of Albertine's hidden selves, inversion
Remembering lovemaking routine with Albertine
Remembering own response to Françoise's habits in Paris
Remembering Paris sojourns with Albertine
Remembering routine of encountering Mme de Guermantes in courtyard
Reporting the speech of the older Mme de Cambremer; second Balbec visit
Return from jaunt with Mme de Villeparisis to church at Carqueville; First Balbec visit
Return of Spring; life with Albertine
Riding in Dr. Percepied's carriage
Second Balbec visit
Sojourns with Albertine; second Balbec visit
Sojourns with mother outside of Venice
Speaking with Swann about Bergotte
Summary of Part I
Swann at a Guermantes reception
Swann in the throes of jealousy
Talking to wait staff at hotel; second Balbec visit
Teatime memory
The young Mme de Cambremer discussing the development of her taste; second Balbec visit
View of sea from hotel window; First Balbec visit
Viewing Elstir paintings; first visit to Guermantes
Vinteuil's sonata played at Swann's
Visiting St. Mark's with mother
Visits with Mme Swann; description of her dress
Walking the Guermantes way
Walking the Guermantes Way, imagining them
Walking the Guermantes way; seeing their ancestors in church
Walking the Méséglise way
Walking the Méséglise way alone
Wartime memory
Wartime memory, Paris
With Françoise after Albertine's departure
With Saint-Loup and Bloch family; First Balbec visit
Writing down epiphany
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Close
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Decoration
Distant
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Door(s)
Drawing
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Environs
Exterior
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Font
French
Fresco
Gargoyles
Gothic
Holy Family
Illustration
Interior
Italian
Monochrome
Narrativity
Nave
Niche
Norman
Painting
People
Photograph
Porch
Print
Relic
Relief
Romanesque
Roof
Ruin
Rural
Russian
Saints
Spire
Stained Glass
Statue(s)
Steeple(s)
Tapestry
Tomb
Tower(s)
Transept
Urban
Wall
War
Writing
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