In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [333]
Isolated smells: Smell of vétiver in an unfamiliar room: I 8; (see also II 334); smell of orris-root in the little closet: 14, 222; smell of varnish on the staircase at Combray: 36; smell of cooking from the Oiseau Flesché: 65–66; country smells concentrated in Aunt Léonie’s rooms: 66–68; “glutinous, insipid, indigestible and fruity” smell of her bedspread: 68; odour of unbleached calico in the draper’s shop: 88; balmy scent of the lime-trees on evening walks: 159; M’s chamber-pot “a vase of aromatic perfume” after eating asparagus: 169; aroma of roast chicken the “proper perfume” of one of Françoise’s virtues: 169; smell of asparagus gives the kitchen-maid asthma: 173; fragrance of Odette’s chrysanthemums: 311; fragrance of acacias in the Bois: 593; Odette’s scent, whose “fragrant exhalations” perfume the whole apartment: II 103, 113; lemon fragrance of guelder-roses: 288; Odette’s drawing-room permeated with the scent of flowers: 289; the smell of Albertine’s cheeks: 639, 701; (see also III 497). Coarse, stale, mouldy smell of the barracks at Doncières: III 91–92; “peculiar odour” of the soap in the Grand Hotel, Balbec: IV 222; M compares his desires for different girls to the perfumes of antiquity: 323–24; smell of rhino-gomenol exuded by Mme Verdurin on musical evenings: V 320; smells evoked by a spring morning: 553–54; “cool smell” of a forest: VI 367.
SNOBBERY. Legrandin’s tirades against snobbery—“the unforgivable sin”: I 92; his own snobbery: 177–82 (cf. V 8, 906–7). Princes “know themselves to be princes, and are not snobs”: II 128. Bloch taxes M with snobbery: 437, 442 (cf. IV 686–87). Snobbish distinctions among the lower classes more surprising because more obscure: 579. Offensive snobbishness of the Prince de Foix and his friends: III 551–52. “Evangelical snobbery” of the Princesse de Parme: 585. Bréauté’s hatred of snobs derives from his own snobbishness: 691 (cf. 618). Craven snobbishness of Mme de Saint-Euverte: IV 137–38. Artistic snobbery (Mme de Cambremer-Legrandin) and its effect on reputations: 288–94 (cf. 480–81). “Congenital and morbid” snobbery (of Mme de Cambremer) which renders its victim immune to other vices: 438. “Snobbery is a grave disease, but it is localised and so does not utterly corrupt the soul”: V 8. Gilberte’s snobbery, which has “something of Swann’s intelligent curiosity”: 790–94. Element of sincerity in snobbery: 795. The snobbery of the gutter: VI 368. How snobbery changes in form: 393–95.
SOLITUDE. M’s exhilaration in the solitude of autumn walks: I 217–20. M can be truly happy only when alone: II 430–31. Reasons for Elstir’s life of solitude; the practice of solitude engenders a love for it: 556–57. “An artist, if he is to be absolutely true to the life of the spirit, must be alone”: 605. The “solitary work of artistic creation”: 664. “Each of us is indeed alone”: III 432. Ideas are like goddesses who appear only to the solitary mortal: 545. “Exhilarating virtues of solitude”: V 22–23. M’s fears that marriage will deprive him of “the joys of solitude”: 25–26. “The fortifying thrill of solitude”: 265. Impression of solitude in Venice: 884. Solitude can be preserved in the midst of social life: VI 369; but M proposes to return to a solitary life to write his book: 435–37.
SPEECH. See Language.
STOCK EXCHANGE. M’s stocks and shares; Norpois’s advice on his portfolio: II 33–34 (cf. V 866–67). Peculiar credulity of the Stock Exchange—sensational war-time rumours: VI 370.
SUN. Afternoon sun behind closed shutters at Combray: I 113–14. Rays of the setting sun in Aunt Léonie’s room: 187. Sunlight on a balcony: 563 (cf. III 418); on the snow in the Champs Elysées: 567; in M’s classroom: 575. Sunlight in the train to Balbec: II