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> 
> Which is also an interesting fact -- and also leads me to
> wonder whether
> anyone else might say the same.
> 
> So -- let's put both questions on the table.
> 
> 1.  Has expert advice ever caused you to derive an
> aesthetic experience from a
> work that did not occasion it before ?

Absolutely, yes!  Criticism is a means of access to art.  Well done, it opens 
the gates to fuller experience to art and life.  Who could say otherwise 
without being a narcissistic solipsist (redundancy intended)?  Wait!  Our list 
shelters more than a few of those. Without them, we'd be missing some of 
Michael's glittering posts, such as his latest.
WC

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