Benjamin Black's The Lemur
"His memories of those days were all hazed over happily, as if he were looking back through a pane of glass that had been breathed on by someone who was laughing."
How that word 'laughing' at the end alters the sense by nudging the nostalgia cliche developed throughout the sentence! Is the nostalgic spell of dreamy half-remembrances caused by a laughter which laughs at nostalgia itself? Nostalgic deflection is produced by an ironic laughter which puts nostalgia itself at a distance. To have a different effect of sense, we can say that this double-movement is precisely what defines nostalgia.
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