"Albertine came from nowhere, and is very modern in that way: she flutters, comes and goes, from her absence of attachments she derives the instability and the unpredictable quality which give her her power of freedom." Jacques Dubois, For Albertine: Proust and the Sense of the Social.
1.
The Young-Girl is fascinating in the manner of all things that exhibit a closing-in-on-themselves, a mechanical self-sufficiency to the observer, like the insect, the infant, the automaton, or Foucault's pendulum.
The Young-Girl wants to be desired without love or loved without desire. There is no threat, in either case, to her unhappiness. The Young-Girl has love stories.
It is enough to recall what she classifies as "adventure" to get a good idea of just how much the Young-Girl fears the possible.
2.
Femininity = infantilism of women
Masculinity = infantilism of men
3.
"I'll scream if you come any closer."
I'm no subject, I'm just stuck.
4.
I'm in Dimes Square. I'm in Bergen-Belsen.
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