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The background of the sailor end girl reveal that they are
on a city street corner.
That adde something to the total feeling.
The signal is turned to "etop" -- whi ch mey be read as the essense
of their conversation, or it may not as one chooses.
We reconstruct
the situation from the gestures, the clothee, the place. There is an
unco necious effect, the literal image makes a different impression
than the non-literal. The abrupt contrast of tones affects us
differently than if most of the tones merged and so forth. They
could be read thoroughly and found to impart little.
