keannu
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What does it mean " a sensation as sweet as seeing ourselves in our dreams"? Why does quoting tense make such a fanstatic feeling? I don't get part "as sweet as seeing ourselves in our dream", It's really hard to understand,
ex)In the Turkich language, we have a special tense that allows us to distinguish hearsay from what we've seen with our own eyes; when we are relating past events we could not have witnessed, we use this tense. It is a useful distinction to make as we remember out earliest life experiences reported by our parents, stories to which we listen with the same rapt attention we might pay to some brilliant tale of some other person. It's a sensation as sweet as seeing ourselves in our dreams, so I feel compelled to add "or so I've been told" before closing a sentence. However, we pay a heavy price for it; Once imprinted in our minds, other people's report of what we've done end up mattering more than what we ourselves remember, even shaping our understanding of our lives.
ex)In the Turkich language, we have a special tense that allows us to distinguish hearsay from what we've seen with our own eyes; when we are relating past events we could not have witnessed, we use this tense. It is a useful distinction to make as we remember out earliest life experiences reported by our parents, stories to which we listen with the same rapt attention we might pay to some brilliant tale of some other person. It's a sensation as sweet as seeing ourselves in our dreams, so I feel compelled to add "or so I've been told" before closing a sentence. However, we pay a heavy price for it; Once imprinted in our minds, other people's report of what we've done end up mattering more than what we ourselves remember, even shaping our understanding of our lives.
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