The advantage of the Pantheon is that we know the end; we can rest there from the hard work of the novelist. No more surprises and suspense! A calm lake, finally! The characters exist in our place! If some of my characters were included, who would they be? The Count of Monte Cristo, who virtuously withholds his vengeance after having satisfied his need for justice? The determined Miss Danglars? She is so close to her singing mistress… Certainly she would get along with your musician's daughter, Mlle Vinteuil, this brave sturdy who has an affair with an authoritarian young woman. As for your characters, some would be blackballed like Charles de Noailles at the Jockey Club. Obviously, Robert de Saint-Loup was killed as a hero during the First World War,but it is not without having lost his war cross in a brothel. Basin de Guermantes deceived his wife too much to be admissible nowadays, and she admitted it too much to
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