Aesthetic qualities, ambiguity and patterned form

What this note covers

1. Treat aesthetic quality as an achieved relation
2. Pattern turns recurrence into expectation
3. Ambiguity can organise active judgement
4. Rhythm and staging give thought a body
5. Compression can make ordinary detail resonant
6. Evaluate beauty, disturbance and formal limits

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