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of an intimate connection between disease in general, madness in general, and the sensitive artist's nature.

p. 181

(the third sex)

... on one level the novel offers us an explanation of human behavior that is now reorganized to be erroneous and that on another level it was that explanation as an effective metaphor for enduring human problems.

p. 196

Morel is the wife of any huspand [sic] and the huspand [sic] of every wife, and even more: he can be a man to men, a man to women, a woman to women, and a woman to men. In the character of Morel Proust's permatations of love are complete.

What Proust is really doing ... is turning the idea of the "man-woman" into a metaphor for human sexuality in general.

p 201

... two conflicting desires in most art: the desire to describe the world as it is and the desire to create a new world of the imagination.

p 207

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"The poet is to be pitied who, with no Virgil to guide him, has to traverse the circles of an inferno of sulfur and pitch, throwing himself into the fire which falls from heaven in order to rescue a few inhabitants of Sodom ... Where is the psychiatrist who has not had an attack of madness as a result of keeping company with madmen? Still more fortunate is the one who can affirm that it was not some latent, anterior madness which moved him to devote himself to them. In the case of a psychiatrist, the subject of his study often reacts upon the man himself. But, before this happens, what obscure inclination, what fascinated terror, caused him to choose this subject in the first place."

Proust p 213

I am he who sees and feels things the opposite of the way they are usually seen and felt. I am he who lives his life backwards in order to make it meaningful, he who organizes his experience by approaching it á l' emvers. I am he who