Italo Calvino sheds a little light on the question I posed and answered so poorly at our last lunch: what to leave in and what to leave out, how to tell the difference, and why it matters. Thanks Italo!
"Both in art and in literature, the function of the frame is fundamental. It is the frame that marks the boundary between the picture and what is outside. It allows the picture to exist, isolating it from the rest; but at the same time, it recalls--and somehow stands for--everything that remains out of the picture. I might venture a definition: we consider powetic a production in which each individual experience acquires prominience through its detachment from the general continuum, while it retains a kind of glint of that unlimited vastness."
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