[MD] Individual v Collective

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Hello Ian,
Please attach the following i gratefully received from Arlo to my last post  
in connection with my discussion of bird-song analogy.
 
Love,
Mark
 
If art is an intrinsic quality of activity, we cannot divide and  subdivide
it. . . . Not only is it impossible that language should duplicate  the 
infinite
variety of individualized qualities that exist, but it is wholly  undesirable
and unneeded that it should do so. The unique quality of a  quality is found 
in
experience itself; it is there and sufficiently there not  to need 
reduplication
in language. The latter serves its scientific or its  intellectual purpose as 
it
gives directions as to how to come upon these  qualities in experience. The 
more
generalized and simple the direction the  better. The more uselessly detailed
they are, the more they confuse instead  of guiding. But words serve their
poetic purpose in the degree in which they  summon and evoke into active
operation the vital responses that are present  whenever we experience
qualities.