"Take that, Chocotte," said Mme de Verdurin. "And otherwise, did you have a pleasant journey?"
"We encountered only vague specimens of humanity who thronged the train."
Marcel Proust, Cities of the Plain, p. 955.
I don't know if I have anything earth-shatteringly profound to add other than I thought this was a pretty funny line, and it proves that I'm not the only one who says things like this. It also reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry calculates what percentage of people are actually good looking, and determines that the DMV is like a leper colony. Of course, the line is provided by the scholar Brichot, who the rest of the characters abuse with consistency.
"We encountered only vague specimens of humanity who thronged the train."
Marcel Proust, Cities of the Plain, p. 955.
I don't know if I have anything earth-shatteringly profound to add other than I thought this was a pretty funny line, and it proves that I'm not the only one who says things like this. It also reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry calculates what percentage of people are actually good looking, and determines that the DMV is like a leper colony. Of course, the line is provided by the scholar Brichot, who the rest of the characters abuse with consistency.
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