how can the name be there sooner than the experience?

"does what makes me happy need to be a name? love!- do not debase my feelings with a name that thousands of weak creatures abuse! what other man has felt what i feel! such a one never existed until now - how can the the name be there sooner than the experience? it is a new, unique feeling, newly created with this new, unique being and only possible for her."

f. schiller, the man who sees ghosts, 1789
rppc of 'the original', 1915-1916 (quite a long exposure time to stand so still!)