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again, isn't there a whole world of difference between a bad film of Faust and a good one?<br />

VVhat matter in culture are not the great contrasts but the nuances. <br />

the world always . <br />

Pedagogic side of this undertaking: "To educate the imagemaking medium within us,<br />

raising it to a stereoscopic and dimensional seeing into the depths of historical shadows."<br />

<strong>The</strong> words are Borchardt's in Epilegomena zu Dante, voL 1 (Berlin, 1923),<br />

pp. 56-57. <br />

On the figure of the collector. One may start from the fact that the true collector detaches<br />

the obj ect from its functional relations. But that is hardly an exhaustive description of this<br />

remarkable mode of behavior. For isn't this the foundation (to speak with Kant and<br />

Schopenhauer) of that "disinterested" contemplation by virtue of which the conector<br />

attains to an tmequaled view of the object-a view which takes in more, and other, than<br />

that of the profane owner and which we would do best to compare to the gaze of the great<br />

physiognomist? But how his eye comes to rest on the object is a matter elucidated much<br />

more sharply through consideration.

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