![]() He would like to feel it now, and under his control. He would like to have arrested that moment. ![]() Just as he would like to have the feeling of Odette’s face imprinted into his memory at the birth of his love – the moment of their first kiss – so now he would like to have sensed the feeling of the moment of its death. In fact, he thinks with “terror” and sadness of the passing away, as in death, of Jealous-Swann that is, a self that has ceased to be. It’s not simply that love falls away and he can blithely sail off to another love or even a lesser dalliance, for example, to that attractive Mme Cambremer that he encountered at Mme Euverte’s. This passing ought to be a relief, as after a painful illness. Jealous-Swann is becoming Not-Jealous Swann. ![]() ![]() The closing pages of Swann in Love tell of Swann falling out of love that is, they tell of the passing away of his jealousy and suffering (which amounts to the passing away of love). ![]()
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