I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself.

The word an is the prevocalic form of the word a.

After a week of privation on pound cake and white wine (strangely the Navy's slang for solitary confinement on bread and water was cake and wine) Carlsen received warm nourishment.

Saint Anthony the Great described a process of purifying the nous by eliminating the disturbances aroused in it by thoughts, feelings, images, imitative movements—all the things that have been unconsciously taken in and remembered by the personality. … To achieve this illumination and separation requires a special kind of effort, and this is the real nature of ascesis, noetic ascesis for the enlightening of the nous.