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by Jalad 1426 days ago
I'll expand on this since I found it interesting. Essentially it's a reference to a French epic called "In Search of Lost Time" by Marcel Proust. It was his life's work and is around 4.2k pages or 1.3 million words! That's much larger than "War and Peace", "Les Miserables", "Crime and Punishment", "The Iliad", and "The Odyssey" combined; which is super impressive.
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It is also impressive how Monthy Python managed to compress it to 30 seconds :-)
I actually haven't seen Monty Python's parody of it! Will be sure to give it a watch after reading it