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Swann’s Way, paragraph 36, part 2

It should be said the results of this way of viewing the art of gift giving weren’t always exactly brilliant. The idea I got of Venice based on a drawing by Titian with the lagoon supposedly in the background was certainly much less precise than what I’d have gotten from simple photographs. At home we’d lost count (especially when my great aunt wanted to file an “indictment” against my grandmother) of all the chairs she’d offered to young and old alike which, at the first attempt to use them, immediately collapsed under the weight of the sitter.

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