摘要：An unfinished work of art or scholarship often invokes a paradoxical response, especially if its conception is grand or original. Intermixed with disappointment, there is a certain sense of relief in knowing that neither the author nor the observer need risk disappointment in the realization of the initial vision. Much of the greatness of such works lies in their very state of incompletion-in the potentialities they reveal rather than in those they actualize.
