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To: Arkinsaw
As Jacques Maritain put it, art is capable of establishing “a world apart, closed, limited, absolute,” an autonomous world that, at least for a moment, relieves us of the “ennui of living and willing.”

I gather that's the effect of said Presidential Library.

33 posted on 12/27/2008 1:45:09 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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Ennui does come to mind, but perhaps not in that context.
38 posted on 12/27/2008 1:50:45 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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