Pepper 🐙
Weird how I'll suddenly remember the most random thing. Like how the clothes in their cupboard were folded and packed.
Jun 30, 2017 at 5:48pmWeb
Show threadjansegersJun 30, 2017

@NattyGov
It's a natural thing, described in literature as "Proust's madeleine moment"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/simon-heffer-proust-madeleine-wagner/

due to a passage in his major oeuvre "Á la recherche du temps perdu"

#literary #quote #citation #Proust
#puku #nimi_open

Show threadjansegersJun 30, 2017

@NattyGov

Here is the precise passage of Proust in a nice English translation on a University site

http://ww3.haverford.edu/psychology/ddavis/p109g/proust.html

It is really worth reading ...