In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [336]
(See Inversion; Sadism.)
VIRTUE. “The impassive, unsympathetic, sublime face of true goodness”: I 113. Our virtues are not free and floating qualities but closely linked to the actions in conjunction with which we exercise them: II 2–3. “The frequency of the virtues that are identical in us all is not more wonderful than the multiplicity of the defects that are peculiar to each one of us”: 437. It is not common sense, but kindness, that is “the commonest thing in the world”: 437. Other people more capable of kind acts than we suppose: V 439–40. “Kindness, a simple process of maturation”: VI 379.
WAR. Françoise and the gardener at Combray discuss the possibility of war: I 121–23. Discussions at Doncières on the art of war; Saint-Loup’s theories: III 140–51 (cf. VI 380). Françoise’s reaction to the Russo-Japanese war: 450. Saint-Loup on the possibility of a Franco-German war; his predictions as to the cosmic nature of a future war: 565. M’s interest in the Boer War: IV 11. Preparations for war provoke war: V 487–89. The 1914–18 war: VI 381 passim; war-time Paris: 53–54; profound changes brought about by the war in inverse ratio to the quality of the minds it touched: 53–54; the misery of the soldier: 63–64; patriotism, courage and cowardice, heroism of the poilu; the ethos of the soldier (Saint-Loup): 69–80, 91–92; the butler “puts the wind up” Françoise; “a good blood-letting is useful now and again”: 84–85; relation of 1914–18 war to previous wars: 101–4; the war considered as a struggle between two human bodies: 118–19; “scum of universal fatuousness” which the war left in its wake: 236. Saint-Loup’s theories about war vindicated: 429–31. War “is something that is lived like a love or a hatred and could be told like the story of a novel”: 431.
WEATHER. M’s father’s meteorological preoccupations: I 12, 127 (inherited by M: V 95–96). Sonorous atmosphere of hot weather: 114. Atmospheric variations provoke changes of key in M’s sensibility: 550. Importance of weather for M’s hopes of meeting Gilberte in the Champs-Elysées: 563. Cold weather at Doncières: III 124. Profound and unpredictable psychological effect of atmosphere: 187. “A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and ourselves anew”: 472. Evocation of a spring day: IV 243–45. Hot weather at Balbec and its effect on M’s love affairs: 320–21 (cf. 534). Changes in the weather fill M with joy since they herald changes in his own life: 509. M in bed reads the weather from the quality of street sounds: V 1. The “barometric mannikin”: 5–6. Moments of inspiration and elation due to the weather: 23. Various kinds of weather and their interest for the idle man: 100–3. A spring day in winter: 147. Fine spring weather reawakens M’s desire for women and travel: 544–45, 553–56. Atmospheric changes provoke other changes in the inner man, awaken forgotten selves: 663.
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Time Regained first appeared in The Modern Library as The Past Recaptured in 1951.