That's a magnificent list, thank you. Some I have read and some I have not.
I hope you enjoy the ones you have not!
May I strongly suggest *In Youth is Pleasure* as a book I imagine your liking a great deal.
I will look for it.
I think I will add that for this precise feeling there also has to be a sort of trancelike quality often associated with summer, although as we discuss it I remember that Alain-Fournier's *Le Grand Meaulnes* is set in the dog-end of winter, but has it.
I don't know if summer is a requirement for me; I might agree on a strong seasonal component, which is part of the intensity of place; my personal numinous season is autumn; so does Tove Jansson's The Summer Book (1972) fall into this category for you?
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I hope you enjoy the ones you have not!
May I strongly suggest *In Youth is Pleasure* as a book I imagine your liking a great deal.
I will look for it.
I think I will add that for this precise feeling there also has to be a sort of trancelike quality often associated with summer, although as we discuss it I remember that Alain-Fournier's *Le Grand Meaulnes* is set in the dog-end of winter, but has it.
I don't know if summer is a requirement for me; I might agree on a strong seasonal component, which is part of the intensity of place; my personal numinous season is autumn; so does Tove Jansson's The Summer Book (1972) fall into this category for you?