Audio and photos of Morrissey reading a passage from Within a Budding Grove (aka In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower), the second volume of In Search of Lost Time:

Those few steps from the landing to Albertine’s door, those few steps which no one now could prevent my taking, I took with delight, with prudence, as though plunged into a new and strange element, as if in going forward I had been gently displacing the liquid stream of happiness, and at the same time with a strange feeling of absolute power, and of entering at length into an inheritance which had belonged to me from all time.

This was at a show by Howard Devoto’s Luxuria, whose song “Mlle” opens with the original French version of this passage.

{Via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog}