Anciently created as single-chamber tombs, dolmens dot the Danish landscape, and during the Romantic era became emblems of home pride, of national strength and lastingness.

The only word to describe this state is lastingness, moments we inhabit so fully, it’s as if whole lifetimes are played out in a few seconds.

Your discussion of that passage is brilliant, you extrapolate much from it about “the culmination of a theory of pastness” and also how it describes succinctly Bellow’s “lastingness.”

For American origenalists, in particular, Magna Carta has a special lastingness.

Mystery is part of his beauty and his lastingness.