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What was the difference between the black plaster and the green plaster?

Alexander's direct question to Mr. Ishiguro, crystallizing the inquiry into the ineffable 'something'.

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The elder Mr. Ishiguro's black plaster possesses a profound quality of direct relatedness between person and matter—a 'something' that has escaped modern consciousness—while his son's green plaster lacked it.
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The story of the black plaster as a concrete, experiential demonstration of the difference made by relatedness.

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