Kinbote in PF, regarding “Proust’s rough masterpiece”:

 

 . . . described—by Cocteau, I think—as ‘a mirage of suspended gardens,’. . .

 

Cocteau in Excelsior (1913):

 

Swann is a gigantic miniature, full of mirages, superimpositions of gardens, plays on time and space, broad cool touches in the style of Manet.

 

Matt Roth