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-"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale"

The body is the individual being, therefor when relating size, one always acts in comparison to ones self. To a 7 ft tall basketball player the 10 ft rim is merely a arm extension, away versus the 4 ft 7in 10 yr old boy who can hardly reach half way. This also explains why sometimes when we see a picture, its hard to know the size, unless compared to an object recognizable in size.

-"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experiences"

Its easier for our minds to see and object, and remember an emotion experienced with that object, than it is for one to completely recall a memory. That object also exists throughout time, from the time the memory happened to the time you recall the memory, therefor was part of the experience.

-"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss"

I believe for nostalgia to be sustained more specifically with change, and not necessarily just loss. You could maybe gain a little brother but still be nostalgic about the quite old peaceful days around the house. But then you could look at it as losing peace and quite in the house, so i think it really comes down to how you choose to look at it.