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It was a typical summer evening in June, the atmosphere being in such delicate equilibrium and so transmissive that inanimate objects seemed endowed with two or three senses, if not five. There was no distinction between the near and the far, and an auditor felt close to everything within the horizon. The soundlessness impressed her as a positive entity rather than as the mere negation of noise. It was broken by the strumming of strings.
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Gibson, J. (1986). Specimen passage and commentary. In: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07423-5_6
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