In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [319]
GAMES. Gilberte and her friends play battledore and shuttlecock in the Champs-Elysées: I 560–61. Prisoner’s base in the Champs-Elysées: 562. Golf at Balbec; Andrée’s “record” round; Octave, “I’m a wash-out”: II 625. Albertine plays diabolo: 637,695–96. “Ferret” (hunt-the-slipper) with the little band: 680–84. “Golf gives one a taste for solitary pleasures”: 696. Cottard and Morel play écarté at La Raspelière: IV 485 et sqq.
GERMAN, GERMANS. “Straightforward bluntness” of the Princess Mathilde, inherited from her Württemberger mother, recalls the Germany of an older generation: II 157–58. The name Faffenheim-Munsterburg-Weinigen expresses “the energy, the mannered simplicity, the heavy refinements of the Teutonic race”: III 346. “The vice of a German handclasp” (Prince Von’s): 591. Charlus’s “German habit” of fingering M’s muscles: IV 422. M’s mother’s admiration for the German language despite her father’s “loathing for that nation”: V 135. Gilberte impressed by the “perfect breeding” of the German officers billeted at Tansonville: VI 332. Charlus’s pro-Germanism: 121–26; “that splendid sturdy fellow, the Boche soldier”: 171. Saint-Loup’s respect for the bravery of the Germans: 219, and for German culture: 226–27. M’s reflexions on his own attitude towards the Germans: 324–26.
HABIT. “That skilful but slow-moving arranger” who helps us to adapt to new quarters: I 8–9 (cf. II 339–41). Suffering caused by the interruption or cessation of habit: 10–11. The force of habit blunts one’s sensitivity to a work of music: II 141. Contradictory effects of habit: 319. “Our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon habit”: 319. The analgesic effect of habit: 340–41. Without habit, life would seem continually delightful: 398. We prefer to friends we have not seen for some time people who are the mirror of our habits: 412–13. Habit dispenses us from effort: III 103–4. Modification in our habits makes our perception of the world poetic: 106. Habit the hardiest of all plants of human growth: 159. The many secretaries employed by Habit: IV 187–88. A second nature that prevents us from knowing our first: 208. Effect of habit on M’s view of the Grand Hotel: 221. Sleep and habit: 517–18. “The regularity of a habit is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity”: V 48–49. Habit prevents us from appreciating the value of life: 101–2. “In love, it is easier to relinquish a feeling than to give up a habit”: 479. A new aspect of Habit—a “dread deity” that can be as cruel as death itself: 564–65. The “immense force of Habit” lacking in M’s love for Gilberte and Mme de Guermantes: 577. Habit produces the illusion of necessity in love: 679–80. Laws of habit as applied to the idea of Albertine’s infidelities: 720–22. “The heavy curtain of habit … which conceals from us almost the whole universe”: 732–33. Force of habit infinitely outweighs the hypnotic power of a book: 757–58. Our habits in love survive even the memory of the loved one: 921. Our habits develop independently of our moral consciousness: VI 333. What is dangerous in love … is not the beloved, but habit: 491.
HAWTHORN. See Flowers.
HEREDITY. Arbitrary laws of filial resemblance; Gilberte and her parents: II 190–92. Saint-Loup’s hereditary virtues: 432. “We take from our family … the ideas by which we live as well as the malady from which we shall die”: 644. Inheritance of mannerisms of speech, etc. (the