missed the point
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.
But all the stories about the devil making a deal and then cheating missed the point. The real horror was that once the bargain was struck, the devil didn't cheat. He gave you exactly and explicitly all that had been promised. And the price was your soul.
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.