The ending of Proust was very surprising.

Just like the Quran, it ends with three descriptions : of time, of eternity and of man.

Ignorant people said that Proust tried to make his name eternal through literary fame, but he clearly wrote that his book would end up forgotten after a few hundred years or so.

Gori wonders what Proust was trying to do…

Was he realizing that time was an illusion ?

Was he seeing the events of this world as ever-existing in their own dimension ? After all he writes that the doorbell of Combray from his childhood is still ringing in his old age, maybe it is not at all a metaphor.

Maybe in a way he mastered time travel… Or maybe a way to get out of time…

As for the Quran, it ends, not rigorously but close, with Al Asr (Time), Al Ikhlas (Pure faith) and Al Nas (Men)…

Time being, as Muhammad Iqbal was teaching, God itself.

Pure faith being eternal

And men… Gori doesn’t know what they are doing here….

Proust last’s character is the 83 years old duke of Guermantes, realizing the immense length of time he is walking upon, and falling back in his seat.

He also writes that time comes to man to be carried by him, and leaves him for another when he dies…

What was Gori’s thought ? He doesn’t remember.