Interesting passages.

Proust has brought me into an interesting passage where his protagonist explains his imagined letter from Gilberte and the former gift of an excerpt of his imagined author, Bergotte, from Gilberte. This concerned the motivation of Racine in writing his classical tragedies. I've read a number of these, but, unfortunately, don't remember much about them except that they are incredibly precise and beautiful examples of iambic pentameter. Included is a photograph of my current bedstead. Some nights, like last, I only go over one of his sentences, one that I've already read, and then drop off to sleep. However, slowly, ever so slowly, I am approaching the end of Du Côté de Chez Swann