\u201c\u2026I suddenly discerned at my feet, crouching among the rocks for protection against the heat, the marine goddesses for whom Elstir had lain in wait and whom he had surprised there, beneath the dark glaze as lovely as Leonardo would have painted, the marvelous Shadows, sheltering furtively, nimble and silent, ready at the first glimmer of light to slip behind the stone, to hide in a cranny, and prompt, once the menacing ray had passed, to return to the rock or the seaweed over whose torpid slumbers they seemed to be keeping vigil, beneath the sun that crumbled the cliffs and the etiolated ocean, motionless lightfoot guardians darkening the water\u2019s surface with their viscous bodies and the attentive gaze of their deep blue eyes.\u201d
\n\u2015 Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower<\/p>\n
\u201cThe past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight – all their lives.\u201d
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