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“Marcel combatted those things in his own way. He would circle among his victims collecting his ‘black honey’ his miel noir, and then he wrote, ‘I beg of you, Jean, since you live in the rue d’Anjou in the same building with Mme. de Chevigné, of whom I’ve made the Duchesse de Guermantes; I entreat you to get her to read my book. She won’t read me; and she says she stubs her foot in my sentences. I beg you—’ I told him that was as if he asked an ant to read Fabre. You don’t ask an insect to read entomology.” —Jean Cocteau, on Marcel Proust
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:58:58 +0000

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