  The true aesthetic reaction—itself rarely described in situ in terms of a proximate cause (“In these cases the word ‘cause’ is hardly ever used at all” [Wittgenstein 1966, 14]) is far more immediate, and far more intertwined with, and related to, what we see  in[4]  the work of art in question. “It is a reaction analogous to my taking my hand away from a hot plate” (Wittgenstein 1966).  He thus says: