| Notes | '\n{110} Proust uses two words for memory- souvenir to mean what is remembered and mémoire the capacity to remember - and the most difficult and interesting ideas in the passage about the melody are those of permanent forgetting, for the duration of \"a whole life,\" and of remembering what we never knew in the first place. The lost tune is lost time and talent is the long labor of putting together what we didn\'t know we knew. Much of Proust\'s mature theory of memory is here, but a famous key element appears to be missing. What about the concept of involuntary memory? Doesn\'t Proust believe that conscious and willed attempts at remembering are precisely a form of losing life and time rather than finding them?\n'
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