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Vous l’écrirez, n’est-ce pas? Bien mieux que je ne le ferais jamais! Puisque je ne peux pas! Impossible! Au-dessus de mes moyens! Mais vous!

Henri Thomas, Le Parjure¹

The passage in Proust has to do with storytelling (in the double sense of lying and of narration), with memory as a precarious support of narrative continuity, and with anacoluthon’s function in both storytelling and lying. Anacoluthon doubles the story line and so makes the story probably a lie. A chief evidence for the middle’s perturbation is the small-scale details of language. This means that close reading is essential to reading narrative: „À vrai dire, je ne savais rien qu’eût fait Albertine, depuis que je la connaissais, ni même avant.“ (à suivre)

J. Hillis Miller, „The Anacoluthonic Lie“²

By „the ethics of reading“, the reader will remember, I mean the aspect of the act of reading in which there is a response to the text that is both necessitated, in the sense that it is a response to an irresistible demand, and free, in the sense that I must take responsibility for my response and for further effects, „interpersonal“, institutional, social, political, or historical, of my act of reading, for example as that act takes the form of teaching or of published commentary on a given text. What happens when I read must happen, but I must acknowledge it as my act of reading, though just what the „I“ is or becomes in this transaction is another question.

J. Hillis Miller, The Ethics of Reading³