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From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
>What weight one attaches to this depends on whether one thinks art's
>happiness is merely "mere".
And what one thinks "mere" is:
undiluted, mixed, pure, of wine, not mixed with water, of a language, pure, unmixed,
of other things material and immaterial, pure and unmixed, nothing
more than, nothing less than,that is what it is in the full sense
of the term, nothing short of (the expressed term) absolute, entire, sheer, perfect,
a pastische from the OED.
Best,
Rebecca
Rebecca Seiferle
www.thedrunkenboat.com
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