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<li><p>What is the difference between C and E? And where in the passage is E supported?? (i hate these kind of questions.. -.-)</p></li>
<li><p>I put C. I thought the last sentence was bascially saying you could think about art, or you can enjoy art, so C kinda made sense. I dont get where A comes in to play at all in the last paragraph..</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for the help!</p>
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<li>This is the official CB explanation: </li>
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<p>Choice (E) is correct. The author asks what most people call “aesthetic pleasure” and then answers this question at length in a way that does not seem entirely unsympathetic. The author appears tolerant in that the views of the majority of people are presented as sensible and coherent on their own terms. Later, though, the author pronounces these views completely wrongheaded. The author betrays condescension throughout, perhaps most clearly in the dismissive characterization of most people as sentimental, as seeking in a work of art nothing but “the moving fate of John and Susie.”</p>
<p>IMO, if you just read it, it really just feels condescending, but tolerant. He definitely isn’t solemn, because that has a negative, gloomy connotation.</p>
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<p>Choice (A) is correct. In lines 45-47, the author says emphatically that “preoccupation with the human content” of a work of art is “in principle incompatible with aesthetic enjoyment proper.” In the discussion in lines 20-41, the author makes it clear that the alternative to being preoccupied with people and passions is the consideration of “artistic forms proper,” or “purely aesthetic elements” (line 31). Since the author believes that there is such a thing as “true artistic pleasure” this pleasure must come from this alternative response to a work of art.</p>
<p>thanks very much!!</p>