The idea is this: treat the temporal distance as a geographical distance, and geographical distance as a distance in time. What do you mean? It seems obvious, a geographical distance, two points on a map, tantamount to an amount of time that would employ (different means, different times) to get from one point to another. And an amount of time, which distances us from our past (it's infancy? Is adolescence? Is the last nice smile?) is sometimes a geographical space, imagined as a city of our past and also copresent. I guess the incidence of light at two in the summer afternoon in the street, that city, of that year. It is the same light, makes the picture shaking palpepre, I believe there is even now. But, "everything has changed, I do not live there any more."
One of the most famous and, apparently, "read" Lyrics by Gino Paoli, "The Cat" (1961), contains nell'inciso in a rapid passage of minor chords (Lam/Sim7), this precise example of the "remember "as transfer-assimilation of the temporal dimension in that geographical : "Now I do not live there any more / everything has changed, I do not live there any more." The light in the streets is always the same, but the geography, time, I expanded it to embrace a beautiful smile, in full, all my past and my whole bio-geography.
Gino Paoli (album Memories - 1961)
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