When noticing this atmosphere I am in the situation of a man
wh
o is working in his room, reading, writing, speaking,
etc., and who suddenly concentrates his attention on some
soft uniform noise, such as one can almost always hear, particularly
in a town (the dim noise resulting from all the various noises of the
street, the sounds of wind, rain, workshops,
etc.).
We could imagine that this man might think that a particular noise was
a common element of all the experiences he had in this
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room.
We should then draw his attention to the fact that most of the time he
hadn't noticed any noise going on outside, and secondly, that
the noise he could hear wasn't always the same (there was
sometimes wind, sometimes not, etc.)