And the anonymous letter referred explicitly to relations of that sort.
But he had had more confidence in her then than he had now. You’re not made of marble.” Odette had assured him that it was only a joke, and he had attached no importance to it at the time.
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Lit up as though by a row of footlights, in the new surroundings in which it now appeared, the word “marble,” which he had lost the power to distinguish, so accustomed was he to see it passing in print beneath his eyes, had suddenly become visible again, and had at once brought back to his mind the story which Odette had told him long ago of a visit which she had paid to the Salon at the Palais de l’Industrie with Mme Verdurin, who had said to her, “Take care, now! I know how to melt you, all right. Having opened his newspaper to find out what was being played, the sight of the title– Les Filles de Marbre, by Théodore Barrière–struck him so cruel a blow that he recoiled instinctively and turned his head away. One day, during the longest period of calm through which he had yet been able to exist without being overtaken by an access of jealousy, he had accepted an invitation to spend the evening at the theatre with the Princesse des Laumes. In Swann’s case, he suddenly realizes what he had unconsciously known all along, that Odette had been (another horror alert) Mme Verdurin’s lover. As is often the case, the first such event is a rehearsal by Swann for that of Marcel: the discovery that their lovers are (horror alert!) female homosexuals. In two passages unforced memories evoke the deepest, sharpest feelings of pain found anywhere in the novel. But the association is not always so pleasant.
Proust associates unforced memory with a visceral feeling of joy or enchantment, which may precede the conscious awareness of the actual memory.
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