Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“The gap of time since I had seen him last had made no impression on me”
- Source
- Field and Hedgerow
- Date
- 1889
Meaning of “The gap of time since I had seen…”
Jefferies describes memory resisting elapsed time: the remembered person remains vivid even though years have passed and death has created an irreversible break in the present.
Where does it come from?
Field and Hedgerow; Project Gutenberg #7030. The sentence occurs in a recollection of John Brown after his death and is kept in that personal-memory context rather than generalized into abstract grief advice.
