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Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

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Is Moby Dick a Great Work of Art?

I think the great works of art are about that. They take what they take away from us is this possibility of success. And yet they don't allow us to stop driving, right? I just think it would have gassed me because the accident is really when he's driving. Like, like, if he actually attained, is like, if the accident didn't happen with Myrtle Wilson and he'd gotten, let's say, Daisy decided to stay with him, which it's clear she probably wouldn't. It still would be a total failure so that the, I think the great work shows this in an anti-capitalist way. That there's something inherently that there's something that

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