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• But while there is a distinct difference between how nature and art each effect unselfing, Murdoch argues that what separates great art from the bad and the mediocre is precisely this capacity for stripping down the self rather than inflating the ego — a notion evocative of Tolstoy’s insistence that a real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.

From part 1 of Packy McCormicks’ essays on Vertical Integrators

https://www.notboring.co/p/vertical-integrators