The love of places
a land like
the love for persons
The love of one's country like the love for persons nourishes itself on
phot images
relics and photographs. To
have before one's eyes the beloved features, places of
the place and or of
the woman of the
woman or of the place that have gone that we cannot clasp to our heart
Because places have By
offer keeping before
our eyes the beloved features of
the beach of the
horiz or of
the woman who has gone
or of the horizon of
the sky that are no longer there in which the
mood changes variable and faithful trouble the face and the look
are at that moment illuminated or veiled, without our being able to
perceive it but not without us being able to imagine it, by a faithful and
variable mood, which remains itself but which is alive, portraits nourish
our tenderness with everything that they do not appear to give, of that
life, of perpetually changing beauty, of those endless renewals of our
love that an image
the image gives us, less inexact for being the image not of single time
rather of being so for an eternity, and that it stirs us to seek more
passionately. Give me the material and I will make of it the life. Those
glorious cheeks and I
will make them blush, sparkle, cool
dissolve and come back
silkily
blonde silky and blonde like hair, relishingly
raw like blood melting into blonde silk
silky gloss like the
hair, congealing in coolness like blood, until irresistibly tempting the
lips, healthiness in which the lively animation of an excursion blends
into the sweetness
calm of recent sleep, kept on the bloom of the flesh like the sweetness of
still fresh honey. I shall cause those eyes to laugh that she makes
golden, shi sparkle
make glisten her mouth, caress her voice. Or I shall cause her heart's
blood to ebb, and I shall hold her for a moment all white, with her
extinguished eyes that will no longer move, her
silence and the melancholy inflexion of her silence.
Quelques manuscrits "Lefebvre" conservés à l'université de l'Illinois, Chris Taylor, Bulletin d'informations proustiennes, 53, 2023
Created 16.11.23