http://wordie.org/words/chimerical Comments for the word 'Chimerical' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/chimerical#comments "For years I had believed that the notion of going to Mme Swann's was a vague, chimerical dream to which I should never attain; after I had spent a quarter of an hour in her drawing-room, it was the time when I did not yet know her that had become chimerical and vague like a possibility which the realisation of an alternative possibility has destroyed."<br />-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 151 of the Modern Library paperback edition Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:31:06 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/chimerical#comments