Get Used to Going to Bed Early

Aaron Matz (Slate) explains why American readers won't find out how In Search of Lost Time ends until 2018, and why that's a damn shame:

"Despite all their connections to the earlier volumes of the novel, The Prisoner and The Fugitive (along with the second half of Sodom and Gomorrah) constitute a novel unto themselves, a total fiction. They describe possession, jealousy, renunciation—obsessions native to every section of Proust's novel, but nowhere else articulated in such exhaustive detail and with such relentless energy."

(And, yes, I know, and Matz knows, that we can always go back to Scott Moncrieff, or order online from England...although I'm wondering if maybe a road trip to Canada might be of any use.)