#In search of lost time

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The two of them were linked in some mysterious storybook way.

Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (1913)

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Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff)

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Charles-Amable Lenoir - In Search of Lost Time.

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Fun fact!

The longest fanfiction on Archive of Our Own currently is a 8,798,794 word long Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles fic titled “Future Shock - Cameron AKA Nobody - TSCC Season 3-10” with 1627 chapters and counting by Nobody_TOK715 that is still ongoing and was last updated 3 days ago on September 21st, 2024

The current holder of the Guinness World Record for longest book is 1,175,999 million words long and is titled “In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel Proust published in 1913

The longest Ao3 fanfic is approximately 7.5 times the length of the Guinness World Record holder

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Henri Fantin-Latour, Flowers and Fruit

"And he asked her whether she had seen the flower painting by Fantin-Latour which had recently been exhibited." Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time - Wikipedia

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Theoretically, we are aware that the earth is spinning, but in reality we do not notice it: the ground we walk on seems to be stationary and gives no cause for alarm. The same happens with Time.

from In Search of Lost Time, Book 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust, À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Placard Manuscrit (1914-1919).

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Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us [...]

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol. VII

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The Prisoner

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Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff)

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Le Temps retrouvé. Raúl Ruiz. 1999

[sweetsweetperil]

Do the planets ever yearn for more

Like a girl, hollow and bound shut behind her door?

Or do they know they are the greatest gift waiting to be found,

Could she be just what the world needs, now?