On Longing by Susan Stewart Response

“The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale.”

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 The individual can use their own body to represent themselves and to express their personality.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

“Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience.”

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 Certain objects represent different experiences.  There could be many different types of souvenirs to show off those experiences.  Either those objects mean something or just show off that experience.

      

“The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3 dimensional into the miniature that which can be enveloped by the body.” 

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What a souvenir is and how it relates to the individual.

“Nostalgia can not be sustained without loss.”

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 The feeling of feeling alone, the feeling of loosing someone which causing an individual to feel alone.

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

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          A souvenir doesn’t have to be something you can hold.  It can be a memory of any experience, or any place that an individual has been too.