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  • There is no prominent Frenchman by the name of Marcel Proust.

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • And, course, to make another appointment with Marcel Proust.

    E-Books and Life Without Guilt Danny Heitman 2011

  • None less than Marcel Proust would later marvel at Chardin's "strange monster…tinted with red blood, azure nerves, and white sinews like the nave of a polychrome cathedral."

    A Monumental Moment Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

  • Waiters circulated with trays of madeleine cookies—Marcel Proust's favorite treat in "Remembrance of Things Past."

    Toned-Down Galliano Draws Curious Crowd Christina Passariello 2011

  • Here is Norman Mailer, who viewed himself as the icon of the Age of Aquarius, at the Apollo 11 launch: "Aquarius shook through his feet at the fury of this combat assault, and heard the thunderous murmur of Niagaras of flame roaring conceivably louder than the loudest thunders he had ever heard," and so on, through a sentence rivaling Marcel Proust in length and a Harlequin Romance in blather.

    Americans In the Air Daniel Ford 2011

  • All of this has come to mind as I prepare to ring out another year in which I have, once again, failed to read Marcel Proust's multivolume "In Search of Lost Time," which greets me from my bookshelf each morning as I bend down to leash our terrier for his walk.

    E-Books and Life Without Guilt Danny Heitman 2011

  • Rick Perry, another pol with his eyes on the prize, never goes to the beach without one of the seven volumes that make up Marcel Proust's daunting "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu."

    Beach Reading for Would-Be Presidents Joe Queenan 2011

  • Indeed, I know what Marcel Proust meant when he said, Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

    2morrowknight: Carla Moreno Rocks (and Tweets) to the Beat of the World 2morrowknight 2011

  • Tastes and smells are particularly evocative, which is how Marcel Proust was famously able to construct a whole discourse on his childhood just by tasting a Madeleine, says Gayatri Devi , a neuropsychiatrist who specializes in memory problems in New York City.

    Blanks for the Memories Melinda Beck 2011

  • In Marcel Proust's "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu," when the narrator contemplates a large fish being served for lunch, he perceives that the fish, with its "numberless vertebrae, its blue and pink veins," had been constructed "like a polychrome cathedral of the deep."

    Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011

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