Friday, February 1, 2008

Proust

In Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, a cup of tea and a little cake set off not memory but a bodily sensation. The things gathered for this exhibition are like madeleines, Proust's little cakes.

Here's a link to the famous passage:

http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/p109g/proust.html