JESSICA JANE JULIUS

“A Madeleine Moment” - the sudden unlocking of memory through sensation, illustrates how an ordinary bite becomes a key, unlocking entire worlds of memory and revealing how the past lives quietly within us, waiting for the senses to set it free.

“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shiver ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disaster innocuous, its brevity illusory…. I had ceased now to feel mediocre, contingent, mortal.”
   - Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (1913–1927)