3. Here o’s are compositional elements as snow; clouds; the girl’s thoughts; her nose, mouth, eyes; her excitement. Letters of the word travel upward through her body on seven paths. The proliferation of o’s illustrative possibilities suggests Proust’s dilemma “. . . and now remembrance advances from the small to smallest details, from the smallest to the infinitesimal, while that which it encounters in these microcosms grows ever mightier. Such is the deadly game that Proust began so dilettantishly. . .” [Cited in Walter Benjamin’s “Berlin Memoir,” p. 6]