一英国喜剧团体Monty Python’s Flying Circus最杰出的滑稽短剧之一是一场滑稽模仿秀比赛——“全英总结普鲁斯特比赛”。选手们被要求在15 秒内尽可能多的总结普鲁斯特关于寻找失去的时间的论作。舞台上树立了一块黑板,它上面从下往上按照游戏“击打卢卡斯”装置(Hau-den -Lukas-Apparatur)的形式列出了文章的书籍。但是几乎没有一个选手在开头时能够超越第一册的第一页。于是,时间就卡在他们的脖子里,如普鲁斯特本人一样,他们也不可避免的一点一点遗失了时间。 One of the most outstanding skits of a British comedy group, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, is a funny parody match - “English Summary Proust Game.” Players were asked to summarize Proust’s treatise on finding lost time in as little as 15 seconds. A blackboard was set up on the stage, from top to bottom, listing the articles in the form Hau-den -Lukas-Apparatur. But few players at the outset were able to go beyond the first page of Book One. So, the time stuck in their necks, like Proust himself, they also inevitably lost a little bit of time.