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“The framing effect of the sign results, according to the originary hypothesis, from the sacralization of the object through the convergence of the desires of the community; it is prerequisite not to perception itself but to the exclusive focusing of attention characteristic of esthetic contemplation.”

— Eric Gans, Originary and Evolutionary Esthetics · Saturday, April 22nd, 2000 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment