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the man who spent seven volumes proving a cookie is never just a cookie.
means marcel proust was a french novelist whose masterwork treats memory, time, and a bite of cake as the biggest events in a life.
from born 1871 in auteuil, chronically ill, cork-lined his bedroom against noise and dust, and wrote most of his major work from bed at night.
sentence lengthone sentence ran over 900 words
writing timelinespent last 13 years writing in seclusion
posthumous volumesfinal three books published after he died
day joblived off inheritance, never held real employment
for instance
the madeleine scene — a dipped tea cookie triggers 3,000 pages of memory
swann's way — volume one, 1913, self-funded after publishers rejected it