American Scenery

Author: Henry James
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Realizing that the first few hours' impressions are always deeply etched, I cherish the impressions I had when I first landed on this land. After many years of returning to an old place, although these impressions came along, I made every effort to collect other impressions with the same mind, which seemed very incoherent. These impressions, these direct tremors of the heart, to some extent refer to an experience recalled from a very distant past, thus triggering a series of associations that from the beginning brought me back to the hazy state of childhood. A youth who had once been dominated by New York is now foolishly finding it again, encountering it everywhere. You can see it, hear it, smell it, and even feel its presence amidst the chaos of noise and change.