ipernity: Nostalgia

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From the eighteenth century essayist James Beauttie explaining why homesickness is felt more strongly for mountain settings:

For precipices, rocks, and torrents are durable things; and, being more striking to the fancy than any natural appearance in the plains take faster hold of the memory; and may therefore more frequently recur to the absent native, accompanied with an idea of the pleasure formerly enjoyed in those places, and with regret that he is now removed to so great a distance from them. ~ Page 25

From Rousseau’s ‘Confessions,’ which while not about nostalgia per se treats of a subject very close to it, namely those experiences that later give rise to pleasurable memory:

I have observed that, in the vicissitudes of a long life, the periods of the sweetest enjoyments, and the liveliest pleasures, are not however, those whose rememberance most wins or touches me. These short moments of delirium and passion, however, lively they may be, are no more, and that from their vivacity even, they very distant points pricked on the line of life. They are too rare and too rapid to constitute a state; and the happiness my heart regrets is not composed of fugitive instants, but a simple and permanent state, which has nothing violent in itself, but whose duration tempers the charm to a degree of reaching, at last, supreme felicity. ~ Page 26

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Amazing work.
Have a nice weekend.

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