∗memory dissolves time; consciousness remade in darkness

For a long time I used to go to bed early.

I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church…

Sometimes, too, just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman w…

Combray at a distance, from a twenty-mile radius, as we used to see it f…

∗Proust's prose dissolves the boundary between sleeping and waking consciousness, tracing how memory reconstitutes identity through sensory fragments and temporal disorientation.

A man awakening struggles to recover his identity through memory and sensation.