I really enjoyed this one, thanks! I started with the second book, so have a particular affection for it. I think he's a teenager, yes. The 'one intelligence that moves the world' comes up a couple of times in Virgil. (My own substack is about poetry, not Proust, but I did write one piece about reading Proust here https://vamoul.substack.com/p/on-first-reading.)
I really enjoyed this one, thanks! I started with the second book, so have a particular affection for it. I think he's a teenager, yes. The 'one intelligence that moves the world' comes up a couple of times in Virgil. (My own substack is about poetry, not Proust, but I did write one piece about reading Proust here https://vamoul.substack.com/p/on-first-reading.)