Leaving an object veiled produces sublimity that explicit presentation destroys

Evidence

Veiling and implying an object is the surest route to producing the impression of sublimity. Removing the veils and bringing that object to the fore risks de-sublimation, and some found Blake’s actual songs unequal to the virtual ones his early records had induced them into hallucinating. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1302

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A general aesthetic law — absence and implication outmatch realization — that generalizes across art forms beyond this music review.
• XREF: Connects to hauntology and Fisher’s wider claim that deferred/absent objects carry more power in media culture. — connects to: Veiling an object produces sublimity while revealing it risks de-sublimation — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 459; Total visibility and memorialization destroy an object’s power to trigger involuntary memory — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 172

Broader Connections

• Veiling an object produces sublimity while revealing it risks de-sublimation #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 459
• Total visibility and memorialization destroy an object’s power to trigger involuntary memory #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 172