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Ihis problem before it : to replace not the forms but the reality of experience with its own —

up to now shapes and meanings but always the illusion relying on composition to give likeness lo « nature »

now works of art cannot be left in this category of France's « lie », they must be real, not « realism » but reality itself —

they must give not the sense of frustration but a sense "of completion, of actuality — It is not a matter of « representation » — much may be represented actually, but of separate existence.

enlargement — revivification of values,

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The universality of tilings
draws me toward the candy
with melon flowers that open

about the edge of refuse
proclaiming without accent
the quality of the farmer's