A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

There is a beauty in being surrounded by the foreign – seeing things from a new perspective, with new eyes

You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.'That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky.

What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved.