Santu De Silva writes:

>All I need is "sufficiently plausible"; not totally plausible.
>And for this, I realize that I have to be a sympathetic audience

I seem to recall being taught that great "nonrealistic" art evokes the
"willful suspension of disbelief" in the experiencer.  I.e., you know it's
not realistic, but you don't care, because it's just so good; even if
things aren't really this way, you can imagine or wish that they might be.

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