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The Case of the Forgotten Quote

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Sep 12, 2023
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I am thrilled to report that, after my Conversation with Chat GPT about Proust was reprinted in the Guardian last week, a heroic reader identified the quote I was looking for (about later love relationships serving as a model for writing about earlier love relationships), which I had come to believe that I had hallucinated! (It did involve someone from …

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