In the autobiographical novel Remembrance of Things Past by the French author Marcel Proust, the reason a garden of water lilies is especially beautiful is because of the sheet of color, even more beautiful than the flowers, of its "soil" --the surface of the water.
在法國作家普魯斯特的自傳式小說《追憶似水年華》裡，一座群蓮爭豔的莊園所以動人，就因為有一片顏色比花朵更富麗、更動人的「土壤」﹘﹘水面。