The Relationship Between Art and Ideas

There's a little bit of a puzzle like, okay, if Legati or any number of artists, including yourself, say art is not allegory, art isn't about points. What is there for us to grab onto if it isn't some kind of verbalizable propositional content that we can then discuss? I think that it's interestingly in that very essay that Legotti wrote, the dark beauties of unheard of horrors where he says that it's bad to one shouldn't reduce stories to kind of a boilerplate or like a simple didactic point. He then goes on to interpret Lovecraft's story, the music of Eric Zahn and does precisely, well, he doesn't do

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