A trace is the apparition of a distance, however close that which it evokes may be. Whereas the aura is the apparition of a nearness, however far away that which left it behind may be.
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~ Images: Galileo’s sunspot drawings, published in Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari e Loro Accidenti Rome, 1612
~ Text: Walter Benjamin, fragment from the Arcades Project
