An anonymous jointed wooden dancer extends its arms and lifts one knee, balanced on a brass central pivot above a shallow circular wooden stage inset with a brass ring on pale grey and lilac ground.

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Four Quartets 1

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton

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The passage makes a still point the condition for dance while insisting on dance itself. Stillness and movement are presented as interdependent, not as an instruction to stop dancing. The final bibliographic line and existing public credit remain without certification.

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