The exact sensuous feel of things was something, on occasion, [Henry James] expressed a clear desire and even a preference for:
He wanted the hour of the day at which this and that had happened, and the temperature and the weather and the sound, and yet more the stillness, from the street, and the exact lookout, with the corresponding look-in, through the window and the slant on the walls of the light of afternoons that had been….
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