When we “receive” it [the text] we exert our senses and imagination and various other powers according to a pattern invented by the artist. When we “use” it we treat it as assistance for our own activities…”Using” is inferior to “reception” because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it.
C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (Cambridge: University Press, 1961), 88.
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