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time”: 381–82. Sleep has its own time different from waking time—or perhaps is outside time: 516–20 (cf. V 153–55). Albertine “a mighty goddess of Time”: V 520. “As there is a geometry in space, so there is a psychology in time”: 751 (cf. VI 373). Time brings forgetfulness, which in turn alters our notion of time; “there are optical errors in time as there are in space”: 802–3. Man an “ageless creature” who floats between the walls of time “as in a pool the surface-level of which is constantly changing”: 830. Recapturing Lost Time; extra-temporal sensations; “a fragment of time in the pure state;” “a minute freed from the order of time” re-creates “the man freed from the order of time”: VI 374; a work of art “the sole means of redis-covering Lost Time”: 304 (cf. 350–55); dreams, in spite of “the extraordinary effects which they achieve with Time,” cannot enable us to rediscover it: 323. Guests at the Guermantes reception “puppets which exteriorised Time;” M. d’Argencourt a revelation of Time made visible; “the distorting perspective of Time”: 341–44; re-creative power of Time; “Time, the artist”: 360–61, 367–68; variations in the tempo of Time: 371–73; “balancing mechanism of Time”: 378–79; “the chemistry of Time … at work upon society”: 389–411, 446–47. The young Mme de Saint-Euverte a symbol of Time’s continuity: 495. Time, “colourless and inapprehensible,” materialised in Mlle de Saint-Loup: 506. Time a spur to M: 506–12; fundamental importance of Time in his book; he will describe men as “occupying so considerable a place … prolonged past measure … in Time”: 526–32.

TRAINS. See Railways.

TREES. Trees in the Bois de Boulogne (Allée des Acacias): I 592–93; autumn in the Bois: 598–602 (cf. III 533). The three trees of Hudimesnil: II 404–8 (cf. VI 375). Trees on the roads round Balbec seem to M to be silently warning him to get down to work: IV 559–60. Row of sunlit trees by a railway line: VI 376.

(See Apple-trees; Flowers; Hawthorns.)

TRUTH. The search for truth the “vague but permanent” object of the young M’s thoughts: I 116. “The truth which one puts into one’s words is not irresistibly self-evident”: II 257. Fortuitous stumblings on the truth give some support to the theory of presentiment: 600–1. “Truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent”: III 79–80. Elusiveness of truth in politics: 326. Truth in the context of diplomacy: 351–52. Under the stress of exceptional emotion, people do sometimes say what they think: 693. Truth a current which flows from what people say rather than the actual thing they say: IV 677. The truth comes to us, unexpectedly, from without: 701. Truth, even if logically necessary, not always foreseeable as a whole: V 1–2. “The truth is so variable for each of us …”: 15. A single small fact may be enough to reveal the truth about a whole category of analogous facts: 693. “How difficult it is to know the truth in this world”: 839. “Truth and life are very difficult to fathom”: 843. Truths which the intellect apprehends directly less profound and necessary than those received through intuition: VI 377. Truth for the writer: 289–90. Truth unknown to three people out of four: 492.

VICE. “Perhaps it is only in really vicious lives that the problem of morality can arise in all its disquieting strength;” vice can arise from hypersensitiveness as much as from the lack of it; vice in a writer not incompatible with morality in his books (Bergotte): II 180–81. “The variety of our defects is no less remarkable than the similarity of our virtues”: 438. The bad habit of denouncing our own defects in others: 441. “Every vice, like every profession, requires and develops a special knowledge which we are never loath to display”: 441. Sexual inversion “improperly” called a vice: IV 23–25. People with the same vice recognise each other instinctively: 52. Nothing so isolates us as an inner vice: V 275. There is no one we appreciate more than a person who places his virtues at the service of our vices: 283. Nothing is more limited than vice: VI 378. Internal and external signs of vice: 211. The greatest