For a musical note is a musical note, and a word is a word, and a dab of paint is a dab of paint, which is to say that any moment or instance within a work of art can be said to retain the semblance of its ordinary or mundane nature. And yet, when encountered in its relation to the larger arrangement of the work in which it has been brought to participate, such an instance will assume something of the grandeur or mystery to which the work in its entirety alludes.