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That Summer in Paris - Morley Callaghan 1963

The corner was like a great bowl of light, little figures moving into it and fading out, and beyond was all of Paris. Paris was around us and how could it be alien in our minds and hearts even if no Frenchman ever spoke to us? What it offered to us was what it had offered to men from other countries for hundreds of years; it was a lighted place where the imagination was free. Men have to make room for such places in their thoughts even if they never visit them. p 88

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Proust. from selected letters

"I am still too young to know what makes for happiness in life. But I know that it is neither love nor friendship."

"Alas I love the feeling that the violence of our desire can change nothing in the world around us, in the longing of another heart that

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we wish to incline towards us. Still, I know that shared loves exist, But alas, I do not know their secret."

"Sentimentality is the direct opposite of feeling. It soothes the sense we have of our own lack of feeling, of our inner coldness. Sentimentality is feeling at a bargain price." Arthur Schnitzler

Mademoiselle O - Nabokov 1939

The oval mirror. Hanging on taut cords, its pure brow inclined, it strives to retain the falling furniture and a slope of bright floor that keeps slipping from its entrance.

Coloured pencils. That tiny heap of emerald pencil dust on the oilcloth where a penknife has just done its recurrent duty.

Now the coloured pencils in more detail. The green one, by a mere whirl of the