1.
The body is the primary mode of perceiving
scale.
My interpretation
of this sentence is that the way we measure and scale things, is by comparing
it to our body. For example if we are trying to see how tall something is you
always stand next to it and say something along the lines of “well I’m 5 foot 5
and this door is twice my size so that would make the door about 10 foot 10”.
Therefor the body is the primary mode of perceiving scale.
2.
Capacity of objects to serve as traces of
authentic experience.
To have a capacity of objects means to have the maximum amount of those
objects. So when it states that, that serves as traces and experience it’s
saying that the more objects and souvenirs you have means you have that many
more one of a kind experiences that no one can duplicate.
3.
The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental,
and the three dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by
the body.
This statement
says that a souvenir is a smaller object of some sort of 3D monument that can
be made personal a small enough to be held. For example if I were to go to the
Eiffel Tower I could get a souvenir that would be a handheld replica of the
monument minus the people.
4.
Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.
Nostalgia is a want for something that has happened in the past. So when
is states that nostalgia cant happen without loss it means that you cant long
for something from the past if its currently in your present.
5.
To have a souvenir of the exotic is to posses
both a specimen and trophy.
This
statement say that a souvenir is cool but to have one that hardly no one else
has makes it that much better. As we all know having something that is one of a
kind is hard to come by making it a trophy. Only you have this exotic souvenir
and it’s a specimen of your memory and something you can treasure.
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