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  • 05:50, 12 October 2023 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03031/49/en (Created page with "<languages />")
  • 04:38, 9 October 2023 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03989/en (Created page with "Minor suggestions (of style, not because there is anything wrong with the translation!)... (Yorktaylors) But I did not think at all about the prix Goncourt. -> But I wasn't thinking about the Prix Goncourt at all. suggested me to write -> prompted me to write I am happy like I never have been -> I am happier than I have ever been n.1 he was for a long time discouraged by -> for a long time he was put off by")
  • 09:49, 5 October 2023 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 02902/en (Created page with "which had broken me -> which left me shattered I am able to have guests -> would be able the marvellous work of your brother -> your brother's dazzling book (the phrase is quoted in note 1, so needs to be the same) we are less hurried for -> we are in less of a hurry for Deep down, the polite habit of responding with “I have received your letter on” is very reassuring -> In the end, the businesslike formality of "I have received your letter of the" is comfortably...")
  • 06:06, 4 October 2023 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 04853/en (Created page with "Changes made (Yorktaylors) he did not like my books -> the latter did not like my books thought highly of my books -> thought very highly of my books Léon Daudet came to announce -> announce to me it was like receiving a Christmas present in a year where I did not expect to receive any - it was like receiving a New Year's present at Christmas and in a year when no presents had been expected immoral tendencies -> immoral aspects quite involuntarily - quite unintent...")
  • 06:38, 3 October 2023 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03097/en (Created page with "Suggestions... for keeping an eye on things -> for keeping a close eye on things (veiller au grain: look out for squalls/be on one's guard) neutral stocks - I usually translate "valeurs" as shares and "actions/stocks" as stocks for consistency. But I think the terms are pretty interchangeable and stocks probably fits better here. I will remind you, which -> I will remind you of something that? flamboyant characters -> fiery letters? between your most striking memori...")
  • 09:18, 3 January 2023 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 05413/en (Created page with "Title - on Thursday -> on not required Haussmann boulevard - Don't translate addresses, as per guidelines.")
  • 09:35, 2 January 2023 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03978/en (Created page with "Mr Marcel Proust -> leave as M. Marcel Proust Young Girls in Bloom -> Don't translate book titles, as per the guidelines. (Yorktaylors)")
  • 06:52, 21 November 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 04012/10/en (Created page with "<ref name="n7" /> <ref name="n8" />")
  • 04:06, 21 October 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03992/en (Created page with "Addresses should not be translated, as per the Guidelines. So should be left as 19 rue Docteur... (Yorktaylors)")
  • 09:37, 24 September 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 02906/en (Created page with "Suggestions... "only out of retrospective curiosity" -> "other than out of respective curiosity"? "I thank you infinitely" -> "Thank you very much"? "steam treatments" -> "fumigations" "live with friends" -> "stay with friends" "Clement-Tonnerres" -> "Clermont-Tonnerres" "and so I could benefit" -> "and then I could benefit" "frighten me" -> "terrify me"? "do you not find, does he not find that it is impossible for him to go back" -> "don't you think, and doesn't...")
  • 08:36, 24 September 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03862/en (Created page with "Suggestions... "When have I since had so many useful things to write to you" -> "When for so long I have had some very helpful things to write to you"? "brochure" -> "booklet" - see note 3, not a brochure but a booklet of Proust's article. "I am not resigned to" -> "and still not resigned to"? "vanity still larger" -> "is an even greater vanity"? "The certain excuse of this" -> "The positive excuse for this"? "I do not doubt that it is not absurd" -> "I've no doubt...")
  • 06:56, 24 September 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03780/en (Created page with "Suggestions... "disheartens" -> include the inverted commas. "I would only want your joy" -> "All I want is for you to be happy"? "You are fixating on language" -> "You are playing with words" or even "You are being semantic"? "Because a publisher, in principle, shares in the duties of printing these books." -> "Because one of the principal duties of a publisher is the printing of his books"? "a director of theatre" -> "a theatre director" "that one can see" -> "im...")
  • 05:26, 24 September 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 02924/en (Created page with "Suggestions... "little Bénac" etc. -> suggest "young Bénac" etc.? Does little sound a bit patronizing and inappropriate? "I learned in the latest news" -> maybe stick to the literal "I learned in the last hour"? "so full of value" -> "so full of bravery"? "he wholly decided to commit and go to the trenches" -> "he insisted upon enlisting and going into the trenches" "But the fortune is worth nothing" -> "But money is meaningless"? "You must remind yourself that w...")
  • 11:16, 23 September 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03065/en (Created page with "Suggestions... "physical and spiritual pain" -> "physical and mental pain"? "I make many wishes for you, that" sounds a bit clunky. Voeux could be prayers or hopes. Maybe something less literal such as "you are much in my thoughts/prayers"? You could replace the "that" with "and"? "carrying the same natural beauties" maybe "laden with..." or "bearing the same..."? "a very Romanian “horresco”" -> ""horresco" is very Romanian"? (Yorktaylors)")
  • 10:48, 23 September 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03098/en (Created page with "Suggestions... "administrator of the North" - this refers to the railway company Chemins de fer du Nord so I wouldn't translate the name of the company. Director is probably better than administrator so "director of the Nord"? "those which were intended for you" should be singular not plural. "this one which was intended for you" (Could he have enclosed the other letter with this one maybe?) "Thousands of affectionate and grateful memories" something less literal woul...")
  • 10:26, 23 September 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03822/en (Created page with "Suggestions... "sign a copy of my books" -> "sign a single copy of my books" "and will surely receive them" -> "and will definitely receive them" "the Countess of Noailles, the Princess of Chimay, the Princess of Polignac, the Countess Greffulhe" As per the Guidelines aristocratic titles should not be translated. So -> "Comtesse de Noailles" etc. Similarly "place at the feet of the Princess" -> "place at the feet of the Princesse" (Yorktaylors)")
  • 10:35, 5 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03786/10/en (Created page with "<ref name="n7" /> <ref name="n8" />")
  • 10:35, 5 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03786/9/en (Created page with "With my most affectionate and faithful thoughts. Anna")
  • 10:33, 5 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03786/8/en (Created page with "If Bernstein can't remember either I think you could send for information to Maison Leys<ref name="n5" />, Cité du Retiro 5<ref name="n6" />. Tel : Élysées 29-42.")
  • 10:31, 5 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03786/7/en (Created page with "My secretary and myself have searched in vain for the address for cork<ref name="n2" /> (that heroic name that has put up so much resistance<ref name="n3" />, has nevertheless disappeared from our books). But it was Bernstein<ref name="n4" /> who told me about this naval supplies contractor (Why?).")
  • 10:24, 5 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03786/6/en (Created page with "Dear friend,")
  • 10:24, 5 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03786/5/en (Created page with "Monday<ref name="n1" />")
  • 10:24, 5 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03786/4/en (Created page with "Monsieur Marcel Proust 102 boulevard Haussmann")
  • 10:24, 5 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03786/3/en (Created page with "Pneumatique")
  • 10:38, 4 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03787/11/en (Created page with "<ref name="n16" /> <ref name="n17" />")
  • 10:37, 4 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03787/10/en (Created page with "After having written to you, for the fiftieth time I am looking at this beautiful arabesque design, and here are the words Cité de Retiro, an Élysée in Élysée which, being named by you become the "Champs-Élysées", glowing in letters of fire. Tomorrow I shall write to Cité de Retiro <ref name="n12" /> to find out what this mysterious address can relate to. No doubt I shall find a use for my cork there as I won’t be able to put it up in my new lodgings which I am...")
  • 10:28, 4 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03787/9/en (Created page with "Marcel Proust")
  • 10:28, 4 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03787/8/en (Created page with "Please accept my respectful and grateful admiration Madame,")
  • 10:26, 4 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03787/7/en (Created page with "Ought I to tell you that your wonderful letter has been just like a priceless drawing, because I have hardly been able to decipher a single word of it. Only the name Bernstein can be made out, and I can understand why he has come to be there<ref name="n10" />. But before daring to bore you with all this, some months ago I telephoned him and, like me, he has mislaid the address1. But that's of no importance now, as Guiche2 (who has been wonderful to me in this frightful t...")
  • 10:22, 4 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03787/6/en (Created page with "I would also like to thank M. de Noailles (how the war has made him grow more handsome!). I will find a way. How good it is of him to remember to speak to you about it<ref name="n9" />, tell him, please do (honestly, don’t forget to tell him) how much I was moved by it.")
  • 10:21, 4 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03787/5/en (Created page with "What bliss of resurrection I felt to see the marvellous loops of your handwriting after so many years, which seem to be capable of protecting the Celestial Garden which the Angel (now become redundant) bearing a blazing sword keeps watch over<ref name="n2" />. Your kindness in writing to me like this, and so quickly (qui cito dat, bis dat)<ref name="n3" /> brought back to me ancient feelings that you have since martyred a little. And I am sad to think, at the time of thi...")
  • 10:14, 4 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03787/4/en (Created page with "Madame,")
  • 10:14, 4 July 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03787/3/en (Created page with "102 boulevard Haussmann<ref name="n1" />")
  • 07:30, 10 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 05633/26/en (Created page with "Marcel Proust")
  • 07:30, 10 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 05633/25/en (Created page with "Get plenty of rest my dear friend, my very dear friend, take good care of yourself, get yourself better, I think about you constantly with the strongest feelings of friendship.")
  • 07:30, 10 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 05633/24/en (Created page with "I misunderstood. So I will send you back the proofs shortly. I say shortly rather than tomorrow, because I still haven’t looked at them, and since Mme Lemarié has kindly taken such pains to bring me them<ref name="n5" />, it would be best if I make the most of things by at least making two or three changes even though they are of little importance. Take good care of yourself dear Gaston. I hope that my book which is without any shadow of impatience though without any...")
  • 07:25, 10 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 05633/23/en (Created page with "I am so sorry, I have been very clumsy. My only wish was that you forget for a while that I had written a book. So much so that, as I told Copeau<ref name="n2" /> a few days ago, if it could relieve you from fatigue and worry, I would take the book back to Grasset. And because I made such a bad job of making you realize all this you have tired yourself by writing to me<ref name="n3" />. Dear friend, don’t think about me, and furthermore don’t think about it in terms...")
  • 07:15, 10 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 05633/22/en (Created page with "Dear friend,")
  • 07:15, 10 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 05633/21/en (Created page with "<ref name="n1" />")
  • 10:47, 9 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03292/8/en (Created page with "<ref name="n10" /> <ref name="n11" />")
  • 07:10, 9 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03292/7/en (Created page with "Marcel")
  • 07:10, 9 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03292/6/en (Created page with "Affectionately yours,")
  • 07:09, 9 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03292/5/en (Created page with "had I not been in the middle of a terrible attack today I would have liked to tell you - and Monsieur Picasso - of the sneezing fits and bouts of despondency that have been unrelentingly provoked in me by the dominical blue and the white astragals of the misunderstood acrobat<ref name="n2" />, dancing “As if hurling reproaches at God” <ref name="n3" /> I live with such nostalgia. The other ballets<ref name="n4" /> were so-so. This one was heart-rending, and continues...")
  • 07:03, 9 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03292/4/en (Created page with "Dear Jean")
  • 07:03, 9 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03292/3/en (Created page with "<ref name="n1" />")
  • 09:08, 7 March 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 02892/en (Created page with "Translation reviewed by Moderator with the following suggestions: big sorrows -> great sorrow after the war started. I thought of you in all of these times when the heart gathers, brings close to itself one’s most cherished people. -> and then since the beginning of the war my anguished heart begins to rally, to summon its most cherished people. Your family name was there! -> And that name! I cannot think of nothing but this, and it hurts me, and I wish I could st...")
  • 06:18, 11 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 02843/en (Created page with "Reviewed by Moderator 11.02.22. Minor suggestions for consideration: "same platitudes return" - "the same platitudes are repeated"? "a decent line written on war" - "a decent line written about the war"? (I'm sure he's referring to that particular war rather than to war in general). [Yorktaylors]")
  • 08:15, 9 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/3/en (Created page with "<ref name="n1" />")
  • 10:16, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/22/en (Created page with "<ref name="n35" /> <ref name="n36" />")
  • 10:15, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/21/en (Created page with "“Odile”<ref name="n30" /> is also very “Jumilhac"<ref name="n31" /> » as M. Corpechot<ref name="n32" /> would say, also very “Barrès”<ref name="n33" />, but above all must be very nice being as she is your niece<ref name="n34" />.")
  • 10:13, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/20/en (Created page with "P.S. Hôtel Brunswick seems to be a bit “Boche”<ref name="n28" />. It’s true that Béranger<ref name="n29" /> neutralizes it though.")
  • 10:12, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/19/en (Created page with "Marcel")
  • 10:12, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/18/en (Created page with "My dear little one, please present my respectful best wishes at the feet of Madame your mother and Madame your sister, I shall write to your brother. A thousand tender thoughts from your")
  • 10:11, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/17/en (Created page with "My dear little one, I am paralysed with fatigue and I no longer have the strength to give you all the news about Reynaldo. He was at Melun and having asked to be sent East he was sent to Albi, from where however, alas, he will leave for “the trenches” […] Since the start of this war I can’t tell you all the proofs of moral nobility that he has shown. I’m not just talking from the point of view of the war, but even indirectly. […] Truly Reynaldo is a rock of g...")
  • 10:10, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/16/en (Created page with "In any case all these men of importance are as ignorant as children. I don’t know if you read an article by General Zurlinden about the origin of the word Boche, which, according to him, only goes back to last September when our soldiers etc<ref name="n23" />. He too must never have talked with anybody who wasn’t of “good family”. Otherwise he would have known as well as me that servants, the common people, have always said: “a head like a Boche”, “he’s a...")
  • 10:08, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/15/en (Created page with "As for those killed in the war they are exemplary, even more than can be expressed. Everything that has been written about poor Psichari, who I didn’t know but I heard so much about, is completely false<ref name="n21" />. And apart from one or two of them, those literary men who now think that they are “serving” through their writing, talk very badly about it all. (There are exceptions - have you read “Les Trois Croix” by Daniel Halévy in the Débats<ref name=...")
  • 10:06, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/14/en (Created page with "And on this subject, my dear little one, I was utterly stupefied by something I was told: ill-informed as I am about the magnitude and the steady brightness of the new stars that have been shining for some time, I thought I owed a lot of respect towards M. [Z…]<ref name="n20" /> who I have never read, but who I was told possessed some genius. But I was quoted these words of his the other day, which made me sick and that I can’t quite believe are accurate. I am writin...")
  • 10:03, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/13/en (Created page with "My dear little one, everything I have to say to you would fill volumes, and I wanted to reply to you straight away so as not to let myself be “decimated” by this burst of activity towards you if I were to resist. I hope that you don’t have too many of your friends “killed in action”, but one loves even those one does not know, we weep even for the unknown.")
  • 10:02, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/12/en (Created page with "My dear little one, until my appearance at the review board I shall look after myself, so that I will be able to go to it. But all the same if you come to Paris I will be able to receive you (but I won’t get up). Afterwards, if I’m not “taken”, so much the easier. But I will be.")
  • 10:01, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/11/en (Created page with "As for me I am to go before a medical board and I shall probably be taken, because they take everybody. But I have been stupid because I didn’t need to get myself registered, having been struck off the staff as an officer<ref name="n11" /> and these Boards are only for privates, according to what Clément de Maugny<ref name="n12" /> told me, when he came to see me one evening<ref name="n13" /> as he was passing through Paris; a very nice chap, having much improved, pro...")
  • 09:52, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/10/en (Created page with "My dear little one, I too was tormented over my brother, his hospital at Étain was bombarded while he was operating, the shells smashing his operating table. He was mentioned in despatches in any case, but not for that, for countless other acts of courage that he never ceases to perform<ref name="n10" />. Unfortunately he is moving forward into the most terrible dangers, and until the end of the war I don’t what news the next day is going to bring me.")
  • 09:51, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/9/en (Created page with "My dear little one, I found out a month afterwards that your brother-in-law had suffered an automobile accident, but I had no idea that Léon had been in it and had been seriously injured. Could you ever imagine that I wouldn’t have written to you! So were you too in the motor car? (since you say: I’ve got Léon beside me injured). I am in retrospect very upset to learn this<ref name="n5" />. I shall write to your brother. I was going to do so anyway to tell him of m...")
  • 09:46, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/8/en (Created page with "My dear little one, I don’t know why I’m telling you all this and so stupidly, because through brevity I completely distort my thoughts, which are not the ones you are going to imagine. In a word, my dear little one, besides all this, you haven’t written to me for two months, since the outbreak of war, but truly there has not been <u>a single day</> when I haven’t spent hours of my time with you. My dear little one, you cannot believe how my current affection gra...")
  • 09:42, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/7/en (Created page with "Frédéric Masson, whose style in the past I have felt to be that of an old grumbler, is far too much at the present time the embodiment of French “culture”. If he is sincere in finding the Meistersingers inept and inflicted through snobbery, he is more to be pitied than those he declares to be afflicted with “Wagneritis”<ref name="n3" />. If instead of being at war with Germany we had been at war with Russia, what would people have said about Tolstoy and Dostoev...")
  • 09:41, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/6/en (Created page with "But all the same had the press, and notably Le Figaro<ref name="n2" />, had better standards then victory would be all the more glorious.")
  • 09:39, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/5/en (Created page with "If it were not such a joy - as much as we are able to feel any at this time - to receive a letter like yours, and from someone about whom I have never stopped thinking for a single day with ever increasing tenderness, what a relief it is already to read those pages in which there is no mention of “the Boche”, “their Kultur”, “crying like a little child”, “little sister”, nor the rest of it. All things that we can easily tolerate the more we suffer when we...")
  • 09:37, 7 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02844/4/en (Created page with "My dear little one,")
  • 05:16, 1 February 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 02823/en (Created page with "Translation checked and no changes required. [Yorktaylors]")
  • 09:17, 22 January 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03189/en (Created page with "Some financial terms are interchangeable but for consistency I have used the following translations as guideline: Valeurs - Shares Titres - Securities Actions - Stocks Stocks - Stocks Obligations - Bonds Emprunt sur titres - Loan against securities Prêt sur titres - Loan on securities Valeurs en garantie de gage - Guaranteed shares Action nominative - Registered stock [Yorktaylors]")
  • 09:15, 22 January 2022 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03011/en (Created page with "Some financial terms are interchangeable but for consistency I have used the following translations as guideline: Valeurs - Shares Titres - Securities Actions - Stocks Stocks - Stocks Obligations - Bonds Emprunt sur titres - Loan against securities Prêt sur titres - Loan on securities Valeurs en garantie de gage - Guaranteed shares Action nominative - Registered stock")
  • 11:20, 18 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03100/en (Created page with "Changes made: Heading translated, extra comma removed Suggested changes: Par 1 "my admiration of" -> "my boundless admiration for" Par 2 jobbers -> brokers jobber -> broker Carpet et Mexico -> Carpet and Mexico "at home" -> "with your office" equities -> securities "pending the sales" -> "the only subsequent sales being" ?? Hollandais -> Dutch Saragosse -> Saragossa Nord Espagne -> North Spanish Par 3 "whatever you think is best" -> "As you can imagine" "whether ther...")
  • 09:21, 8 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/16/en (Created page with "<ref name="n30" /> <ref name="n31" />")
  • 13:37, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/15/en (Created page with "Your Marcel Proust")
  • 13:37, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/14/en (Created page with "Alas Madame, I have run out of paper just as it was getting rather good!")
  • 13:37, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/13/en (Created page with "Like certain pieces of good fortune, there are also pieces of misfortune which come to us too late, and can no longer assume the magnitude they would have had for us a little earlier<ref name="n28" />. By the time I learned this I was already consoled. And there was no reason to be surprised by it. Regret really is a physical malady, but between physical maladies we must distinguish those that only act on the body by the intermediary of memory. In the last case the progn...")
  • 13:36, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/12/en (Created page with "Albertine had nothing she could reproach me for. 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 the other speak of Albertine. Through the stories of that moribund self, it believed that it knew her, loved her. But it was only a second hand affection<ref name="n27" />.")
  • 13:35, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/11/en (Created page with "Little by little I began to submit to the forces of forgetting, that powerful instrument of adaptation to reality, that destroyer in us of this surviving past which is in constant contradiction with it. Not that I no longer loved Albertine. But already I was no longer in love with her as I was during the final days, but as in the earliest days of our love. Before forgetting her altogether, before attaining my initial indifference, like a traveller who returns by the sam...")
  • 13:35, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/10/en (Created page with "And when my strongest memories no longer brought her back to me, it was the small insignificant things that had that power. Because memories of love are no exception to the general laws of memory, which themselves are governed by Habit which weakens everything. And so what best reminds us of a person is precisely what we had forgotten, because it was of no importance<ref name="n25" />.")
  • 13:34, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/9/en (Created page with "Since, merely by thinking about her, I brought her back to life, her infidelities could never be those of a dead person; the moment when she had committed them became the present moment, not only for her but for that one of my evoked “selves” who was thinking about her. So that no anachronism could ever separate the indissoluble couple, where with each new culprit a still contemporaneous and jealous lover was immediately paired<ref name="n23" />. After all it is no m...")
  • 13:33, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/8/en (Created page with "For the death of Albertine to be able to eliminate my suffering, the shock would have had to have killed her not only outside of myself, as it had done, but within me. There, she had never been more alive. In order to enter into us, another person must take on the form, bend themselves to the framework of Time; appearing to us only in successive moments, never being able to reveal to us more than one aspect of themselves at a time, or present us with more than a single p...")
  • 11:54, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/7/en (Created page with "But I would prefer to introduce you to some characters that you don’t yet know, one above all who plays the most important role and determines the turn of events<ref name="n9" />, Albertine. You will see her when she is still only a “young girl in bloom” in the shadow of whom I spend many happy times in Balbec<ref name="n10" />. Then when I become suspicious of her over trifles, and have my confidence in her restored by trifles - “because it is a characteristic o...")
  • 11:44, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/6/en (Created page with "You will see the company she kept renewing itself<ref name="n3" />; yet (without knowing the reason until the end) you will still find Mme Cottard<ref name="n4" /> there exchanging words with Mme Swann such as: “You’re looking very elegant”, Odette said to Mme Cottard, “Redfern fecit<ref name="n5" />?" “No, you know I always stay loyal to Raudnitz<ref name="n6" />. Besides, it’s just something I’ve had done up.” “Well, well! it’s really smart!” “G...")
  • 11:40, 6 December 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 03024/5/en (Created page with "Madame, you wanted to know what became of Mme Swann as she got older. It’s quite difficult to summarize for you. I can tell you that she became more beautiful: “This was mainly the result of what happened during her mid-life, when after a period of time Odette had discovered, or invented for herself, her own personal look, an unalterable “character”, a “style” of beauty; and on her disjointed features - which for so long, prey to the dangerous and futile vaga...")
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  • 06:35, 3 October 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03804/en (Created page with "I hope that you do not find me -> If you find me as I want to talk to you -> by talking to you")
  • 10:39, 1 October 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 05411/en (Created page with "telegraphed me pleading -> telegraphed begging me captain -> commanding officer (see note 4")
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  • 06:36, 27 September 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 03988/en (Created page with "director [of the Débats] you could have [had] an article written even when I thought it to be true -> even when I thought that was the case freedom of thought [for that] my e...")
  • 09:10, 28 May 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02950/30/en (Created page with "Marcel Proust")
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  • 09:06, 28 May 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 02950/28/en (Created page with "I should very much like to hear the news from you. The last time I wrote to Madame Foucart she was unable to give me any. Madame d’Alton has not replied to me. And as I will...")
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  • 09:50, 10 May 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 05359/en (Created page with "Minor changes made. [4] moved from after "and" to after "feeling". n2. "five of" changed to "five". "Sodom and Gomorrah" changed to "Sodome et Gomorrhe". n6. "comes up with" c...")
  • 12:38, 6 April 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Talk:CP 05405/en (Created page with "I couldn't think of an accurate translation for "la Place", see note 14, so "H.Q." is an approximation.")
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  • 08:18, 5 April 2021 Yorktaylors talk contribs created page Translations:CP 05405/47/en (Created page with "To you my dear Léon with all my heart, united together in the same terrible anguish and the same great hopes")
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