p.s. i might be totally wrong about hegel assuming that a is a. but attempting to make "does a equal a" a question is, in the sense i'm talking about, turning it into a noun--the question of a equalling a is instead a movement, a mechanism, in an aesthetic method, and as such can be more properly (for me, who likes, as i've said before, to know stuff rather than to learn it) looked at and become (hegelian, eh?).