In search of lost time.Marcel Proust -Swann's Way- (Videobooks) Page 12

In search of lost time.Marcel Proust -Swann's Way- (Videobooks) Page 12 And the great-aunt interpreted this news in an unfavorable sense for Swann: a person who chooses his acquaintances outside his caste to which he belongs by birth, outside his social “class”, is experiencing, from her point of view, a pernicious process of declassing. It seemed to her that such a person refuses the benefits that lie in good relations with all respectable people, and after all, those who are more prudent, remembering their children, consider it an honor to maintain such relations and value them. (My great-aunt even refused the house to the son of our friend the notary, because he married the "radiant" and thus stooped in her eyes to the point that he exchanged the honorary position of the son of a notary for the position of one of those crooks, lackeys and stablemen, who, queens were rumored to have shown favor in the old days.) She rebelled against my grandfather's intention the very next evening, when Swann came to dinner with us, to ask him what kind of friends he made without our knowledge. My grandmother's two sisters, old maids, who shone with their spiritual qualities, but not with their intelligence, for their part expressed bewilderment what kind of pleasure their son-in-law finds in talking about such trifles. Both of them were with lofty concepts and therefore could not stand washing, as they say, bones, they were not even interested in historical anecdotes; in general, they were not interested in everything that is not directly related to the beautiful and lofty. They were so indifferent to everything that apparently had a direct or indirect bearing on social life, that their auditory organs, having finally come to the conclusion that when a conversation at the table takes on a frivolous or even low tone, and both old maids are not in able to turn him to objects dear to them, then they simply do not need them - they stopped perceiving sounds for this time, and, in essence, this was the beginning of their atrophy. If grandfather needed to attract the attention of two sisters, he resorted to the signals used by psychiatrists dealing with pathologically absent-minded subjects: tapping a glass with a knife, accompanied by a menacing shout and a menacing look, to those cruel means that psychiatrists often use in communication with people who are healthy, either out of professional habit, or because they think everyone is a little crazy. On the eve of the day when Swann, intending to come to dinner with us, sent a box of wine to the sisters, they showed a more keen interest in Swann, because my great-aunt, holding the number "Figaro" in her hands, where next to the name of Corot's painting, which hung at the exhibition , it was printed: "From the collection of Mr. Charles Swann", asked: "Did you notice that Figaro 'honored' Swann?" “I always said he had good taste,” Grandma put in. “Well, of course, do you ever agree with us on anything?” my great-aunt remarked; knowing that grandmother never agrees with her, and that we do not always take her side, she made an attempt to wrest from us an indiscriminate condemnation of grandmother's opinion - she wanted to force us to join her. But we kept silent. The grandmother's sisters expressed a desire to talk to Swann about the article in Le Figaro, but my great aunt advised them not to do so. Every time she was convinced of someone's superiority over herself, even the most insignificant, she accustomed herself to the idea that this was not superiority, but a vice, and in order not to envy this person, she pitied him. “In my opinion, you will not give him pleasure with this; I, at least, would be very unpleasant to see that my name was completely printed in the newspaper - I was not at all flattered if they spoke to me about it. 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