I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression "killing time". It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us. Marcel Proust was the man who, by contemplating in a way that transcended the moment, attempted to interpenetrate these two forbidding alternatives.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Christopher Hitchens on Proust
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