once pristine:
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| because of something to do with place-names and temps perdu [nostalgia], and because of the observation that the temps perdu must not be the whole story, that the lacunae in the array must contain something after all, and the seeking for that something must be other than rank sentimentality, and that the expression of seeking is but an emblem of the pain of this seeking, and that the material of the expression left unsaid, the negative space, the lacunae, the measures of rest, the empty beats, are in fact the substance of the expression after all : the metaphor therefore [the accuracy of the symbol being greater than that of the literal, for example] shows that the un-perceived is in fact the subject and substance [reality] of the memory [nostalgia] |
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