This metaphysical intention, in the last resort, validates, through a series of mediations, the entire essay on Proust and all the analyses devoted to the fundamental scene of Claudel's theater (p., the pure state of the Claudelian structure (p. found in Portage de midi, and to the totality of this theater in which, as Claudel himself says, time is manipulated like an accordion, for our pleasure such that hours last and days are passed over (p.