french translating
More swann!
This is the next two paragraphs.
I got back to sleep and sometimes I had some short moments of waking, enough to hear the normal cracking of the house, to open my eyes to fasten on the kaleidoscopic darkness, to taste through a fleeting flash of consciousness the sleep into which was plunged the furniture, the chamber, all of which I was only a small part and to its unconsciousness I would soon unite. Or frequently in sleep I had recalled effortlessly an age I could never return to of my early life, finding some of my childhood terrors, like those of when my great uncle would pull my curls, that had dissipated the day – the dawn of a new era for me – when they were cut. I had forgotten that event during my sleep, in encountering again the memory I also had succeeded at waking myself to escape the hands of my great uncle, but as a measure of precaution I completely encircled my head with my pillow before returning to the world of dreams.
Sometimes, like Eve was born from Adam’s rib, a woman is born during my sleep from a strange position of my leg. Formed of pleasure that I was on the point of tasting, I imagined that it was she that offered it to me. As my body that felt in hers my own heat willed to join to it, I woke up. The rest of humanity appeared very distant to me compared to that woman who with difficulty I had left some moments ago; my cheek was still warm from her kiss, my body still aching for her presence. If, like it sometimes happened, she had the traits of a woman that I had known in life, I gave myself entirely to one goal: to find her, like those who leave on a journey to see with their own eyes a city desired, and imagined that one can then taste in reality the charm of one’s dream.
french translating
the sort of,,, phasing in and out of consciousness that's been taking place so far during the book has been. strangely pleasant?? even if it frequently involves a sort of flow back and forth of our narrator, from himself, his description is an object, where he flows into the description, becomes his own object. etc.
there's a weird melancholy to the dreams, too - they're charming, but also sometimes terrifying, requiring defense, and the poor guy just keeps waking up