The Madeleine Scene in Swann's Way by Proust

In the above video, Neville Jason reads the famous madeleine scene from Proust's Swann's Way for . Naxos Audiobooks.  This passage is well worth studying for how he uses metaphors to unravel layers of memory.  At the end, the entire village of Combray springs from one cup of tea.  Proust takes pages of luminous language to explain memory and what it means.  I wonder how today's editors reading perspective manuscripts would react to these passages--or have the modern readers' tastes changed so much.