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“little band”); “the individual is steeped in something more general than himself”: 667. Andrée’s hair inherited from her mother: 717. Heredity gives uncles the same faults as they censure in their nephews: IV 124, 128–29. Hereditary resemblance of M’s mother and grandmother; “the dead annex the living”: 227–29, 711–12, 720–22. “The souls of the dead from whom we sprang … shower upon us their riches and their spells”—M comes to resemble all his relatives: V 95–97, 135–37, 474–76. Heredity and bad habits: 201–2. “We do not create ourselves of our own accord out of nothing;” hereditary accumulation of egoisms: 791–92. Atavistic wisdom of Mme de Marsantes: 923–24. Moral cells of which an individual is composed more durable than the individual himself: VI 334. Berma’s daughter inherits her mother’s defects: 453. Hereditary need for spiritual nourishment in the Duchesse de Guermantes: 466.

HISTORY. M’s grandfather’s interest in history: I 26, 31. Swann’s curiosity about Odette’s occupations comes from the same thirst for knowledge with which he had once studied history: 388–90. Charlus’s aristocratic prejudices reinforced by his interest in history: II 459–61. The Duc de Guermantes’s politeness a survival from the historic past: III 571. Aristocratic names bring history to life: 734–44. The wisdom of families inspired by the Muse of History: V 918–19. History and Society: VI 335.

HOMOSEXUALITY. See Inversion.

INTOXICATION. See Alcohol.

INVERSION. “What is sometimes, most ineptly, termed homosexuality”: IV 9. The race of inverts: 19–44, their predicament; “a race upon which a curse is laid;” an extensive freemasonry: 20–24; “improperly” called a vice: 24 (cf. 18: “we use the term for linguistic convenience”); types of invert—the gregarious, the solitaries, the zealots, the gynophiles, the affected, the guilt-ridden backsliders: 24–34; typical career of a solitary invert: 31–36; subvarieties of invert; those who care only for elderly gentlemen; the miracle of their conjunction: 36–40 (cf. 9); botanical analogy: 38–4–1; inversion can be traced back to a primeval hermaphroditism: 40–4–1. Numerous progeny of the exiles from Sodom: 42–43. M. and Mme de Vaugoubert: a case of reversal of roles: 57–63. Characteristic voice of the invert: 86. Discussion between Charlus and Vaugoubert: 87–89 (cf. V 51–52). A “diplomatic Sodom”: 100–1. Bloch’s sister and an actress cause a scandal: 326–27, 337–38. Nissim Bernard and the waiters: 327–31, 342–44. “Astral signs” by which the daughters of Gomorrah recognise one another (as do also “the nostalgic, the hypocritical, sometimes the courageous exiles of Sodom”): 338–40. Instinctive behaviour of inverts on entering a strange drawing-room: 414–16. “By dint of thinking tenderly of men one becomes a woman”: 417. The cold shoulder of the invert on meeting his kind; rivalry among inverts; speed of mutual recognition: 431–34. Connexion between inversion and aesthetic sensibility: 479–80 (cf. V 291–92). Giveaway signs—voice, gestures, manner of speech: 497–99. Charm of unfamiliarity in the conversation of an invert: 598–99. Gomorrah disseminated all over the world: V 20. Gomorrah of today a jigsaw puzzle made up of unexpected pieces: 111. Distinction between conventional (classical) homosexuality and the “involuntary, neurotic” homosexuality of today: 269–73. Charlus’s “camping”: 275–77. Significance of the term “one of them” or “one of us”: 280–81 (cf. IV 462–63). Jealousy among inverts; attitude towards relations with women: 283–85. Paternal feelings of inverts: 322–23. Furtive party conversation among inverts: 323–24. Charlus and Brichot discuss the statistics of “what the Germans call homosexuality;” historical examples, present-day trends: 395–413. Recognition between daughters of Gomorrah in a crowd; a typical Gomorrhan encounter: 472–73. “Physiological evolution” of Saint-Loup: 922–36; VI 336. Homosexuals make good husbands: V 929–30; VI 337 (cf. V 409–10). “The phenomenon, so ill-understood and so needlessly condemned, of sexual inversion”: 321. Inverts as readers: 321–22.

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