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1. That the new experience has past time for
its 'content,' and in that time a pen that 'was';
2. That 'warmth' was also about the pen,
in the sense of a group of feelings ('interest'
aroused, 'attention' turned, 'eyes' employed,
etc.) that were closely connected with it and
that now recur and evermore recur with unbroken
vividness, though from the pen of now,
which may be only an image, all such vividness
may have gone;
3. That these feelings are the nucleus of 'me';
4. That whatever once was associated with
them was, at least for that one moment,
'mine' -- my implement if associated with
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1 I call them 'passing thoughts' in the book -- the passage in point
goes from pages 330 to 342 of vol. I.
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hand-feelings, my 'percept' only, if only eye-
feelings and attention-feelings were involved.
The pen, realized in this retrospective way
as my percept, thus figures as a fact of 'conscious'
life. But it does so only so far as 'appropriation'
has occurred; and appropriation
is _part_of_the_content_of_a_later_experience_ wholly
additional to the originally 'pure' pen. _That_
pen, virtually both objective and subjective, is
at its own moment actually and intrinsically
neither.
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