I hope you don’t sack him; he seems a nice boy, and he really had no alternative – I menaced him with Remembrance of Things Past.
Remembrance of Things Past – À la recherche du temps perdu, the most famous work by the French author Marcel Proust, published in the early part of the 20th century. One of the longest novels ever written at almost 1.5 million words, each of its seven volumes would pack a hefty wallop.
Monty Python would later satirize Proust’s verbosity with its great “All-England Summarize Proust Competition” sketch:
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