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In this novel, a cook prepares asparagus nearly every night for a whole summer in order to induce asthma attacks in a kitchen maid (10[1])nicknamed “Giotto’s Charity.” A man in this novel uses the euphemism “making cattleyas (“CAT-lee-yuhs”)” for his trysts (10[1])with a woman whom he likens (10[1])to a painting of Zipporah. During a carriage ride, this novel’s narrator writes an impromptu passage on the image of three church steeples against the sky. A boy in this novel watches the projections of a magic lantern in his room while waiting for a good-night kiss from his mother. (10[2])The title character of this novel’s first volume associates a “little phrase” from a sonata with his love (10[1])for Odette de Crecy. For 10 points, a tea-soaked madeleine induces the narrator’s memories of Combray in what novel by Marcel Proust? ■END■

ANSWER: In Search of Lost Time [or À la recherche du temps perdu; accept Remembrance of Things Past; accept Swann’s Way or Du côté de chez Swann]
<HG, European Literature>
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