Translations:CP 03024/44/en
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- ↑ This passage was drafted in autumn 1914 in Cahier "Venuste", according to his letter CP 02830 to Reynaldo Hahn (see n6). Proust takes it up again here from the subsequent Cahier 56 f. 56 (K. Yoshikawa, thesis op. cit., Appendix, v. II, p. 350); a page that was then cut in two, see Cahier XIV, f. 119, on the back of the glued paper: "Albertine had nothing to reproach her friend for; the one who usurped the name was merely his inheritor. We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we can only remember what we have known. My new self, while it grew up in the shadow of the old, the old that had died, had often heard it speak of Albertine; through the stories it heard from that moribund self, it believed that it knew her, loved her; but it was only a second hand affection." Cf. RTP, IV, 175. [PK, FL, NM]