When you don’t know what to make of something, you either give it time to let it sink in your mind, or you come up with some label that partially describes it. It’s like watching a movie that is nebulous and nonlinear and doesn’t have a clear ending, or like reading a story that has many subplots and tangents that you’re trying to piece together, but you’re not sure how they do.
You know the work is something that you haven’t seen/read before, and you can’t quite compare it with anything to memory. You’re not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing either. All you know is that you don’t know what to make of it.
But after a time, you realize that whether it’s good or bad, or something you liked or not, it stayed with you, made you think about it. And maybe that was the point.
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