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"An Experiment in Criticism" by C.S. Lewis

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CHAPTER

The Importance of Surrender

Real appreciation demands the opposite of process. We must not let loose our own subjectivity upon the picture and make them its vehicles. And then he says the first demand of any work of any art or a book makes upon us is surrender. Look, listen, receive, get yourself out of the way.

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