This pain that has troubled me on a Sunday evening...
Why "a" instead of "on Sunday evening"?
What's the difference?
It's like not every Sunday evening but every other week or so?
it's present perfect...so from the past until now, on Sunday morning on a regular basis? –
Answer
Coupled as it is with the present perfect, "on a Sunday evening" there could be paraphrased "on Sunday evenings". No particular Sunday, but regularly on Sundays. Compare "of a Sunday evening" here:
On the other hand, there is the Paris which is disenfranchised, the Paris of honest labourers and their wives who dance happily of a Sunday evening and whose children play on the city's streets unmolested...
P.S. See also the sentence about customary acts and occurrences, which begins at the bottom of page 109 in the left-hand column here, and continues with examples in the right-hand column.
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