An instance of the audience filling in the gaps in heroic poetry:

"the thing-for-taking-things-from-horses'-hooves" (At Maldon)

An Arcadia stays an Arcadia until its image is set against its reality, effacing the latter and demasking the former. Arcadia threatens reality more than it does the image, for this can always be retrieved.

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