Emphasis on “excruciating.” I remember something about how eating a madeline triggered his memory. But having attempted to read it, I can see why it would take forever, or feel like it. “Swann’s Way” is only about 500 or so pages, depending on the edition. Rory tells Lorelai it took her “forever” to read, and she had to renew the book 10 times. When Lorelai returns home from Max’s apartment and shows Rory "Swann's Way," Rory says, “aren’t we ambitious.” Cough *patronizing* cough. The Modern Library’s translation of the full seven volumes is a whopping 4,000+ pages. “Swann’s Way” is the first of a seven volume colossus Proust penned called either “Remembrance of Things Past” or “In Search of Lost Time,” depending on the translation. Anyway, I do own a copy of “Swann’s Way” and did attempt to read it. Then again, I'm seized by an urge to buy lots of books, all too often. Apparently, though, I was seized by an urge to buy “Swann’s Way,” the Proust book Max lends Lorelai in the above scene. I have issues with French literature (which I explored, in GIFs, here). I can’t honestly say an urge specifically to quote Proust has ever seized me. I could do, ‘as Michael Crichton would say,’ but it’s not exactly the same, you know? Every now and then, I’m seized with an overwhelming urge to say something like, 'as Marcel Proust would say.’ But of course I have no idea what Marcel Proust would say, so I don’t even go there.
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