For if such a project of fitting together hierarchies of emotion and adequate vehicles of form could be undertaken and achieved once and for all, adequation would cease to be a dilemma and the very task and endeavor of art— "the fight to recover what has been lost/And found and lost again and again" would at a stroke be subverted, indeed.....
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