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I encountered the expression "remembrance and soul gathering, an instance of grace", but am struggling to understand it. Could you please let me know what it means? Here is the excerpt:
In years to come, when I’ll pass by her building again, I’ll stop and look upstairs. I don’t know why I’ll look upstairs or what I’ll be looking for each time. But I know I’ll look upstairs, because this purposeless looking upstairs in this kind of dazed and balmy mood I’m in right now is itself remembrance and soul gathering, an instance of grace. I’ll stand there awhile and remember so many things: the night of the party, the night I thought I’d done the right thing by saying goodbye without lingering too long outside her lobby, the night I first felt my nights were numbered here.
- André Aciman, Eight White Nights, Seventh Night
This is a novel published in the United States of America in 2010. This novel is narrated by the nameless male protagonist. The protagonist meets Clara at a Christmas party in Manhattan. Now, the protagonist thinks how he would remember Clara in the years to come.
In this part, I wonder what the underlined expression means.
By "remembrance," I think it means that he would remember... But I wonder what "soul gathering" and "an instance of grace" might mean here.
In years to come, when I’ll pass by her building again, I’ll stop and look upstairs. I don’t know why I’ll look upstairs or what I’ll be looking for each time. But I know I’ll look upstairs, because this purposeless looking upstairs in this kind of dazed and balmy mood I’m in right now is itself remembrance and soul gathering, an instance of grace. I’ll stand there awhile and remember so many things: the night of the party, the night I thought I’d done the right thing by saying goodbye without lingering too long outside her lobby, the night I first felt my nights were numbered here.
- André Aciman, Eight White Nights, Seventh Night
This is a novel published in the United States of America in 2010. This novel is narrated by the nameless male protagonist. The protagonist meets Clara at a Christmas party in Manhattan. Now, the protagonist thinks how he would remember Clara in the years to come.
In this part, I wonder what the underlined expression means.
By "remembrance," I think it means that he would remember... But I wonder what "soul gathering" and "an instance of grace" might mean here.
