bid us attend to the call that comes to us from the form. From the standpoint of form and word, these two are a single act, but to the person addressed, because it is a question of freedom, this single act can appear twofold: there can be the Yes of willing attentiveness and the No which deliberately overlooks: “Who marks it?” “Little did they esteem you.” The power of aesthetic expression is never an overwhelming power but one that liberates. If we lack receptivity to it, we can blindly pass by
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