filing in
below the tapestries:
Guermantes lady
Category Archives: Haiku of Lost Time
A reading of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, expressed as “haiku”, one for each page of the text
I.81
on a gloomy day,
the windows still radiant–
cakes on a pew
I.80
church’s porch
a colander of holes–
noble dust
I.79
whose dog?
but it must be Galopin’s.
quite gentlemanly!
I.78
strangers in Combray?!
Not known from Adam?
Ahhh, but merely…
I.77
a keen pretense–
creamed eggs on a flat plate,
a duty served
I.76
mysterious girl,
focus of speculation,
passes with lunch tart
I.75
Mme Octave
gossiped and feared–
Françoise lamented
I.74
on request,
(late sisters, asparagus),
Françoise opines
I.73
X-ray perception–
overwhelmed by attention
she took her leave