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Make sure no one else is awake. Turn off the lights. Your windows can stay open. Now turn on your phone and begin reading. Repeat as necessary each night. Do not stop until the very last word of the very last volume.

For the Atlantic, Sarah Boxer recounts the unexpectedly Proustian experience of finally finishing In Search of Lost Time on her cell phone.

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Roxie Pell is a student at Wesleyan University, where she writes for Wesleying and The Argus and tweets hilarious nuggets of pure wisdom @jonathnfranzen.

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