In search of lost time.Marcel Proust -Swann's Way- (Videobooks) Page 16

In search of lost time.Marcel Proust -Swann's Way- (Videobooks) Page 16 This hated staircase, which I always climbed so dejectedly, smelled of varnish, and its smell to a certain extent permeated and strengthened that special sadness that I felt every evening - it made it, perhaps, even more painful for my receptive nature, because my mind was unable to fight it, because it acted on the sense of smell. When we are still asleep and perceive a toothache in the form of a young girl, whom we are trying hundreds of times to pull out of the water, or in the form of a Molière verse, which we repeat tirelessly, then what a great relief comes for us when we wake up and give an opportunity to our get rid of the mind from the thought of a toothache with a heroic or rhythmic outfit! I felt something directly opposite to such relief: I inhaled the smell of varnish emanating from the stairs, and inhalation is much more poisonous than penetration through the brain, and therefore sadness at the thought that I had to climb the stairs took possession of me immeasurably faster, almost instantly, insidiously and at the same time rapidly. When I got to my room, I had to lock myself tightly, close the shutters, dig my own grave, throwing back the blanket, and put on a shroud in the form of a nightgown. However, before burying myself in an iron bed, which was brought into my room, because in the summer it was very hot for me under the rep canopy that hung the other, large bed, I showed self-will, I resorted to the convict's trick. I wrote my mother a note, begging her to come up to me on an important matter, which I could only communicate to her verbally. I was afraid that my great-aunt Françoise's cook, who was assigned to look after me at Combray, would refuse to hand over the note. I was tormented by the fear that the request to give my mother a note in front of a guest would seem to her as impossible as it would be for an usher to hand a letter to an actor on stage. Françoise had her own code of do's and don'ts, strict, extensive, cunning and implacable, with incomprehensible and unnecessary distinctions (which gave it a resemblance to the ancient laws, which were so fierce that they ordered the killing of infants and at the same time, they showed excessive scrupulousness, forbidding the boiling of a kid in its mother's milk or eating the sciatic nerve of an animal). If we judge Françoise's code of laws by the sudden stubbornness with which she refused to carry out some of our orders, then one involuntarily comes to the conclusion that the complexity of social relations and secular subtleties provided for by this code could not have been suggested to Françoise by her environment and the way of life of a village servant; obviously, deep French antiquity lived in it, noble and inaccessible to the understanding of others - so in industrial cities an old building testifies that it used to be a palace: the workers of a chemical plant are surrounded by elegant sculptures depicting the miracle that happened to St. Theophilus, and four sons Emona. I could have a faint hope that in this case Françoise would violate the article of her code, according to which she had the right to disturb her mother in the presence of Mr. Swann because of such an insignificant person as I, only in case of a fire, but meanwhile this article Françoise expressed her respect not only to my relatives - this is how the dead, clergymen and monarchs are honored - but also to a stranger who is invited to visit, and this respect of hers, perhaps, would have touched me if I had read about him in a book, but it irritated me when Françoise expressed it, irritated her solemn and touching tone, especially solemn that evening, for the meal was sacred in her eyes, due to which she would not dare to violate her ceremonial. Archimed Production Studio produces high-quality feature films, documentaries and animation films and 360-degree panoramic animation. Winner of five international film festivals. We invite to cooperation of independent producers, distributors, investors . If you have any questions, please write to the e-mail: transfert@mail.ru The animation of all the characters in real time 3d