03-29-2021, 12:42 PM
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the bantering battleaxe
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Cute Post Malone's mom
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Spoiler for even more spoilers, some on chapter 6:
That's pretty ingeneous, you may be right. Like you suggest the details can probably be interpreted in multiple ways that are valid, but I agree that the main thing is that neither the traveller and those of whom they're envious are really looking: they're either occupied with that nostalgic moment when they were happy or going 'if only I had such a feeling attached to this that would make it a nostalgic memory' (so in both cases with memory) instead of just going 'ooh'.
by the way, it's actually one of my favourite sentences in the book as far as I recall; I love the long running clause in the middle that's almost beyond grammar
This city is a bit similar to Phyllis, (cities and eyes 4) actually, except I think that there what keeps people from enjoying (even seeing) is not memory but daily preoccupations, and taking things for what they stand for instead of literally taking them in. Which is what is strating to happen to me on the walks I take in my local park so I felt that 
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