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The concentration of attention instead of the dispersal of it--this is the guiding rule which is behind the Japanese custom of displaying a single picture for a period of time instead of several competing with one another. There is a precise remembered effect in the first case but a confused one in the second.
-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 72