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Friday, February 15, 2008

Can we get out of the way?


“We sit down before [a] picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of any art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way” (19).

from An Experiment in Criticism, C. S. Lewis
Posted by dw at 5:59 AM
Labels: aesthetics, C. S. Lewis, reception

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