This sudden transposition of our roles, this homage, coupled with the thought-swiftly expressed but as swiftly comprehended-" Here is the master I have sought, here is my dream embodied" !
The love of Levine and Kitty and their first years of marriage are a transposition of his own domestic memories, just as the death of Levine's brother is a melancholy evocation of the death of Tolstoy's brother, Dmitri.
Well, I recall perfectly how little, in my now quite established connexion, the maximum of ease appealed to me, and how I seemed to get rid of it by an honest transposition of the weights in the two scales.