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He was monitoring the situation
(walking into the final audition)
EXEC: Whenever you’re ready
ME: Bond is the name. I’m James Bond.
Jack Lowden and Callum Turner are among the final names in the running for James Bond.
Final screen tests for Amazon MGM Studios' new 007 are set to happen in the next week.
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I’ve heard that too, that’s funny though because it’s another case where reading the text in isolation would be very misleading (finding out later who “Mme Swann” is is like the punchline to that whole section)
Also it’s impossible to really appreciate the moments of sublimity and the recovery of memory without the extreme dilation. It’s required for the effect.
the perspective you come to at the very end. But the ending of Swann’s Way itself (in pessimistic melancholy), beautiful as it is, is really the inverse of the true ending, and if you stopped there it would give you a totally false understanding of the story and his view of time.
Agreed on the whole though I think it works a bit more as a stand-alone than later volumes. “Swann in Love” gives you a semi-contained narrative, and the last section (walking around Paris) jumps ahead to reflect on earlier events as things lost to time, so you get a foretaste of
Like all conventional writing advice this is only helpful for low-level students and bad if codified as a rule. There are plenty of good reasons you might prefer to use the longer, fancier word in a given context: for rhythm, register, phonetic texture, etc.
