What
are the two processes, now, into which the
room-experience simultaneously enters in this
way?
One of them is the reader's personal biography,
the other is the history of the house of
which the room is part. The presentation, the
experience, the _that_ in short (for until we have
decided _what_ it is it must be a mere _that_) is the
last term in a train of sensations, emotions,
decisions, movements, classifications, expectations,
etc., ending in the present, and the first
term in a series of 'inner' operations
extending into the future, on the reader's
part. On the other hand, the very same _that_
is the _terminus_ad_quem_ of a lot of previous
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physical operations, carpentering, papering,
furnishing, warming, etc., and the _terminus_a_
_quo_ of a lot of future ones, in which it will be
concerned when undergoing the destiny of a
physical room. The physical and the mental
operations form curiously incompatible groups.
As a room, the experience has occupied that
spot and had that environment for thirty
years. As your field of consciousness it may
never have existed until now. As a room, attention
will go on to discover endless new details
in it. As your mental state merely, few
new ones will emerge under attention's eye.
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