Proust

Yesterday I was tidying up my room and suddenly I found a key ring, which I bought last year in England, in Lyndhurst.

Lyndhurst before & after

It is a key ring with the White Rabbit, the famous character of Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland". In Lyndhurst there's the grave of the girl who inspired Carroll's Alice, whose name was Alice Hargreave ( maiden name: Alice Liddell).

The Church and the grave of the "real" Alice

When you forget about something, this doesn't mean that you have also forgotten the memory of the experience you lived. Sometimes, there're objects bound with a particular event and it's beautiful relive the scenes in your mind.

This is exactly what happened to me. I've remember the streets and the buindings of that little village, the magic atmosphere walking around the tiny shops and the trip with my host family at the New Forest.

 

        The New Forest             

                            



It also came up in my mind the 2010 film by Tim Burton, with his atmosphere between fairy tale and grotesque.

Let the fantasy fly away. 

Close your eyes and dream.


Yours, Silvia

p.s. the title refers to the "madeleines" of the book "In search of lost time", by Marcel Proust, which inspired. this post.