Translations:CP 03787/14/en
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- ↑ Allusion to the Old Testament: "Genesis", III, 24. It is not a question of an Angel, but two cherubim. - In Sodome et Gomorrhe I (RTP, III, p. 32), confusing (deliberately?) the episode of the destruction of Sodom ("Genesis", III, 18-19) with the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden (ibid., III, 22-24), Proust imagines that at the gates of Sodom were placed two angels with "flaming swords" in order to prevent the inhabitants from fleeing, but that the inhabitants would have scorned them. In the episode about Adam and Eve that he is alluding to in the present letter, on the other hand, the guardians of the Garden of Eden are not at all "redundant", since they do indeed prevent the guilty ones from this now for ever lost paradise. It is therefore possible that Proust was currently working on the pages in Sodome et Gomorrhe I that interweave these two episodes. [PK, ChC, FL]