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Chandra brings to bear Sanskrit aesthetic terms such as dhvani and rasa (which might be reductively translated as “resonance” and “affect,” respectively). “Code,” he writes, summarizing the more facile equivalencies drawn between the two forms of expression, "is denotative, [while] poetic language is centrally concerned with dhvani, that which is not spoken; the end purpose of code is to process and produce logic, and any feeling this code arouses in an immediate sense is a side effect … Code may flirt with illegibility, but it must finally cohere logically or it will not work; the language of art can fracture grammar and syntax, can fail to transmit meaning but still cause emotion, and therefore successfully produce rasa.