Madeleine's, Memory & The Taste of Tea





A millennium project had been to read the seven volumes that made up Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.  I read Swanns Way and In the shadow of young  girls in flower.  Ironically it was time which hindered any success in reading all seven in the millennial year.  Hearing of BBC radio 4’s planned  bank holiday readings jogged a ‘rememberance of things past;’ of moments sat reading of the Madeleine and Hawthorn.  Unable to listen in ‘real time’ I set aside time to listen to each episode during leave from work this week.  Memory had misplaced how the ‘taste of tea’ had partnered the Madeleine’s.  I am grateful to the BBC for the opportunity to revisit this project 19 years later.  I will complete it before 2020 is chimed in.

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