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more painful than dying, but less painful than the idea that another person is dead”: 686. Our fear of the dead as judges: 689 (cf. 836–37). M’s hopes of being reunited with Albertine in death: 690–92. Our inability to picture the reality of death: 700–1. Death little different from absence; a person may go on living after death as a sort of cutting grafted on to the heart of another: 706. “It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them fades; it is because we ourselves are dying”: 805. “Nobody really believes in a future life”: 836–37. “Death merely acts in the same way as absence”: 872. Death cures us of the desire for immortality: 874. The abyss of death between us and the women we no longer love: VI 323. Saint-Loup’s death: 226. Death subject to certain laws; accidental death may be predetermined: 231–32. Charlus’s roll-call of the dead: 249. Beatific visions of Combray and Venice make death a matter of indifference to M: 254, 262 (cf. 526). Death as a deliverance: 319. Old age is like death, in that some face them both with indifference, not because they have more courage than others but because they have less imagination: 350. Ubiquity and familiarity of death: 422–24. “Every death is for others a simplification of life”: 425. Berma’s dialogue with death: 454. The last and least enviable forms of survival after death: 475. M’s renewed fear of death not for himself but for his book: 514–15. The idea of death takes up permanent residence within him: 523. Men’s works will die as well as men: 524.

DOCTORS. See Medicine.

DREAMS. M’s dreams of a woman: I 3. Swann’s dream of leaving Odette: 503–4. Swann’s dream of Odette and Forcheville: 538–43. M’s dream about Gilberte: II 281–82. M’s dreams after dining at Rivebelle: 545–46. Beauty of the dream-world; nightmares and their fantastic picture-books: III 105–10. Saint-Loup’s dream of Rachel’s infidelity: 160. M’s dream of Venice: 191–92. M dreams of his dead grandmother; he speaks of her to his father; dream language: IV 216–19, 241–42, 246. Pleasures experienced in dreams: 518–20. A dream may have the clarity of consciousness: 523–24. The stuff of dreams: V 153–55; inventiveness in dreams: 156–60; M’s dream of a woman carriage-driver: 158. Bergotte’s nightmares: 241–42. M’s bad dreams: 664. The “reprises” or “da capos” of one’s dreams; seeming reality of dreams; Albertine’s constant presence in M’s dreams; he speaks to her in a dream, in the presence of his grandmother: 725–28. The importance of dreams; tricks they play with Time (q.v.); the “nocturnal muse”: VI 324.

DRESS. Legrandin’s bow-ties: I 92, 167. Unbecoming fashion prevailing at the time of Swann’s meeting with Odette: 278; Odette’s cape trimmed with skunk, and her Rembrandt hat: 340–41. Head-dress of the Princesse des Laumes: 471, 484. Mme Cottard “in full fig”: 532. Gilberte’s governess’s macintosh and blue-feathered hat: 561. Gilberte’s fur-trimmed cap: 566. Odette’s costumes in the Bois: 494–95, 603–6. M deplores the new (1913) fashions in the Bois: 603–6. M’s Charvet tie and patent leather boots: II 135. Odette’s indoor clothes: 138–39, 155, 230–33, 262–69. Mme Cottard’s Raudnitz dress: 238. Changes in fashion; Odette adapts the new fashions to the old (“Mme Swann is quite a period in herself”): 263–69. Odette’s splendour in the Avenue du Bois; exquisite details of her (typically mauve) outfit; the apotheosis of fashion: 290–96. Swann’s tall hat lined with green leather: 296. Françoise’s simple good taste in dress: 308–9. Saint-Loup’s white suit: 421; “relaxed and careless elegance” of his clothes appreciated by M’s grandmother: 428 (cf. III 117–18). Studied sobriety of Charlus’s clothes: 454–55. Simple but expensive elegance of Mme Elstir’s clothes: 586, 634. Elstir’s unerring taste in dress, appreciated by Albertine: 634–35. Yachting and racing dress; Mile LEA ’s costume at the races: 651–58. Costumes of Veronese’s and Carpaccio’s Venice; their secret rediscovered by Fortuny: 652–54. Elstir on Paris couturiers: 655. The art of the milliner: 659. Costumes of the Princesse and Duchesse