The madeleine thing is actually quite fabulous. Because everyone knows about it, it allows you to assume an air of great literary authority without: (1) actually reading anything, or (2) alientating others who also have not read anything. I'm a fan. A++++ would allude again.

Maybe we should start trying to promelgate a few literary nihilartikels-- stuff about the existential chill of the beach scene in Mrs. Dalloway, or Immanuel Kant's obsesion with the soul-nourishing warmth of horse breath.