Only when ephemeral does time
embody its true essence,
with impermanence its paradigm,
evoking evanescence.
Peter Brooks reviews Michael Murphy’s “Proust and America, ” in the TLS, July 11,2008 (“Paperoles”) :
Late in the novel, Proust analogizes the composition of his novel––put together from papers glued together to permit exfoliating additions, the famous paperoles, so namd by the faithful family servant Françoise––To the work of dressmaking. Murphy comments: “If fashion by its very evanescence embodies Time, it is the dressmaker who stitches together the differencet strands and materials. If Time is to made visible it is not through the permanent, the aim of which is to deny that Time exists, alone that it passes, but through the ephemeral.”
7/15/08
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem