But a day or two later, I received proof of this young woman's tendencies, and also of the probability of her having known Albertine in the past. Often, in the hall of the Casino, when two girls were smitten with mutual desire, a sort of luminous phenomenon occurred, as it were a phosphorescent trail flashing from one to the other. It may be noted, incidentally, that it is by the aid of such materialisations, impalpable though they be, by these astral signs that set a whole section of the atmosphere ablaze, that dispersed Gomorrah strives, in every town in every village, to reunite its separated members, to reconstruct the biblical city while everything the same efforts are being made, be it in view of but a momentary reconstruction, by the nostalgic, the hypocritical, sometimes the courageous exiles of Sodom.
Marcel Proust, Cities of the Plain, pp. 880-881
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