Comment Re:first proust! (Score 1) 656
To keep this on a high intellectual plane, Proust was clearly inspired by a more-or-less similar passage in the Dante Paradisio (for the unread, the third canticle of the Divine Comedy) Canto 26.
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_President's_Analyst_