I will examine one particular case, that of a feeling which I
shall roughly describe by saying it is the feeling of “long,
long ago.”
These words and the tone in which they are said are a gesture of
pastness.
But I will specify the experiences which I mean still further
by saying that it is that corresponding to a certain tune
(
Davidsbündlertänze – – “Wie aus
weiter Ferne”).
I'm imagining this tune played with the right
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expression and thus recorded,
say, for a gramophone.
Then this is the most elaborate and
exact
expression of a feeling of pastness || exact gesture of
pastness which I can imagine.