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Word: combray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accuse him of treason. These Dreyfusard letters foreshadow my special pleading for those whom society punishes by exclusion. And when I speak about a youthful search "for the grain of poetry indispensable to existence," I forecast the nuances of my later work, summoning up the floating vistas of Combray and the light-suffused salons of Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obeying Pain | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

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