5 Statements from On Longoing

       The five statements from the book On Longing

jj      1.) "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."

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jj    I chose this picture for the quote because it made me think of different body types.  An adult perceives a room much different than a tiny child or baby.

        2.) "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience."

ll          I chose a snow globe as the imagery for this quote because the quote made me think about souvenirs and the most common souvenir stereotype is a snow globe.

         3.) "The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into the miniature, which can be enveloped by the body."

          I thought of a Big Ben souvenir because there is something about having a replica of something so majestic and monumental.  

         

         4.) "Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss."

2         When I think of nostalgia, I think of my 85 year old Oma (german grandmother) and her Reminisce magazines she gets monthly.  They make her so happy because they show things that she used to do or have as a young girl.

          5.) "To have a souvenir of the exotic, is to possess both a specimen and a trophy."

!            Many people get souvenirs from exotic places, that stand out from their decor in their homes.  It proves they went somewhere interesting.

          

          6.) "The place of origin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated." 

         Things like alcohol from other countries are desired because you can usually only easily get them in that country.  Kalik is the beer of the Bahamas and they used to sell it at a few grocery stores in the U.S., but recently, they have not been available anywhere other than the Bahamas.