Passage vol 2 page 122 Silence

[REM I think that it is difficult to read Proust without commenting/posting on the beautiful passages and comments he delivers page upon page. I have made it this far without posting to this - I cannot resist any longer. When reading this fine work it becomes necessary to share these beautiful comments and language.]

"It has been said that silence is strength; in a quite different sense it is a terrible strength in the hands of those who are loved. It increases the anxiety of the one who waits. Nothing so tempts us to approach another person as what is keeping us apart; and what barrier is so insurmountable as silence? It has been said also that silence is torture, capable of goading to madness the man who is condemned to it in a prison cell. But what an even greater torture than that of having to keep silence it is to have to endure the silence of the person one so loves!"

Infatuated with this book

The Yasunari Kawabata book I am currently reading is _The dancing Girl of Izu and other Stories_ translated by Martin Holman and published by Counterpoint 1-887178-14-7. As I adore this writer and this book I thought I would get the information into the blog space to keep track etc..