...the major difficulty of reading In Search of Lost Time today is not placed there by Proust; it is placed there by the economy....Proust’s twenty-first century reader searches for the time to read this literary work of art which is lost to a culture that is consecrated to speed and an economy at war with human-scale temporality and, more often than not, fails to find it. 

Okay, Ruby, Rudy, what is this guy's name? Ryan Ruby, fuck off. You've spent too much of your precious Time writing this instead of reading the book.