In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [314]
BODY. The body’s memory more enduring than the mind’s: I 5–6 (cf. VI 318). We localise in a person’s body all the potentialities of his or her life: III 38. Touching prescience of women for what will give pleasure to the male body: 221. Illness makes us aware of that unknown being, our body: 404. Albertine’s naked body: V 97–98 (cf. 710–12). The body’s “terrible capacity for registering things”: 571. “Possession of a body … the great danger to the mind”: VI 319.
BRITISH. See English.
BROTHELS. Odette’s dealings with procuresses: I 525–26. Swann’s visits to brothels; the girl with the blue eyes: 530–31. Bloch takes M to a house of assignation; “Rachel when from the Lord”: II 205–8. Uninterestingness of women met in brothels: III 209, 496 (cf. V 181–83, 222–23). Saint-Loup’s enthusiasm for brothels; Mme Putbus’s maid and Mlle d’Orgeville: IV 127. Luxury brothel at Maineville: 250; mistaken for a grand hotel: 647–48; the Prince de Guermantes’s assignation with Morel, and the experiences of Charlus and Jupien with Mile Noémie: 650–56. Women of the “closed houses”: V 181–83, 222–23. M and two laundry-girls in a house of assignation: 741. Morel, Albertine and a fisher-girl in a brothel at Couliville: 810–11. Social gossip in the Maineville brothel: 899–900. Jupien’s brothel in war-time Paris: VI 320. The Métro in war-time like a Pompeian brothel: 208–9.
CLASS. “Hindu” view of society at Combray—a rigid caste system: I 19 (cf. IV 579–80). For M’s grandmother, distinction of manners independent of social position: 25. M’s great-aunt disapproves of Swann for associating with people outside his “proper station”: 26. For Aunt Céline, “one man is as good as the next”: 34. Françoise’s “class” pessimism: II 98. Social mobility of Swann: 118–19. Intermediate class between the Faubourg Saint-Germain and the world of the merely rich: 294–95. Mutual misunderstanding between the aristocracy and the middle classes: 383–85. Distinctions in middle-class life even more stupid than in “society”: 480. Physiognomical variety of the French middle class: 579. Similarities between people of the same generation more evident than those between people of the same class: IV 109–11. M makes no class distinctions: 579, but his mother is imbued with the “Combray spirit” in the matter of caste: 579–80. “Every social class has its own pathology”: V 11. “The classes of the intellect take no account of birth”: VI 321.
DEATH. Swann père s behaviour on the death of his wife: I 17–18. The Celtic belief in metempsychosis: 59. The “seamy side,” as opposed to the abstract idea, of death: 112–13. Françoise’s reaction to Aunt Léonie’s death: 215–16. Love and death and the mystery of human personality: 438. Our unconscious resistance to the oblivion death will bring: II 338–39. Resurrection of the soul after death perhaps a phenomenon of memory (q.v.): III 111. Unpredictability of the hour of death; the sick person’s first acquaintance with the Stranger that has taken up residence in him: 427–30 (cf. VI 322). M’s grandmother’s death: 470–71. Signs of death on Swann’s face: IV 121–22. “The dead exist only in us”: 214–15. “The dead annex the living;” true and false sense in which we may say that death is not in vain: 228–30. Our indifference towards the dead: 230–31. Diversity of the forms of death: 359 (cf. V 260–61). Mme Verdurin’s reaction to the deaths of the “faithful”: 399–400, 404–7 (cf. V 317–20). “Each alteration of the brain is a partial death;” the phenomena of memory and life after death: 522–23. Imminence of death makes us appreciate life: V 101–2 (cf. 651–52). Bergotte’s death; “Dead forever? Who can say?”: 238–46. Swann’s death; “There are almost as many deaths as there are people”: 260–64. “The death of others is like a journey one might oneself make”: 264. Presentiments of death: 538, 540, 543–44. In good health we imagine we are not afraid of death: 569–70. Albertine’s death: 641–42. “The idea that one will die is