[small][left][pad-medium] Some things are surrounded by an aura; they attract attention, compel interest, and establish an immediate and intuitive connection to the viewer. Such things are magical.^{[footnote-link][1]} They are not necessarily beautiful to look at, but they can ignite feelings and moods resulting in stimulating sense impressions or nourishing aesthetic experiences. Furthermore, they have the quality of making people want to spend time with them, wear them, or share the same space with them.

[medium][right][pad-small] But what _____ keeps telling me - about the value of the skeleton Lego figure, the feather, the pebble,^{[footnote-link][2]} and the watch - is that "they are rare." Precisely the fact that they are "rare" is valuable to _____. But they are also valuable in part because they contain emotional and aesthetic elements that combine to tell the story about how _____ acquired them - where _____ was when _____ found them, how they come into _____'s possession, or who gave them to _____.

[medium][center][pad-medium] The aesthetic, sensuous value of the objects, for _____, concerns the tactile pleasure ^{[footnote-link][3]} of touching them and the fact that they contain a particular,  rare beauty. _____ is fond of letting the fingers lightly brush across the barbs of the feather, even through, with each stroke, they come apart slightly more; _____ never tires of holding the pebble or touching the colourful Lego diamonds that form an essential part of the treasure.^{[footnote-link][4]} The sensuousness that amounts to the value of the treasure contains a high degree of tactility, and this tactility creates an intimate bond between  _____ and the things.^{[footnote-link][5]}

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