If you take the immediacy thesis to imply the artistic irrelevance of all properties whose grasping requires the use of reason, and you include representational properties in that class, then you are apt to think that the immediacy thesis implies artistic formalism.
Bartering in Lingala and English, Spinelli pretended to be interested in a dried monkey, whose hands grasped nothingness with unappetizing despair; he picked through yams but didn't buy any.
But so in a far more modest way was another play, "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice," by a second northern English writer, Jim Cartwright, whose grubby, grasping, booze-soaked terrain must seem like another planet to the inevitably middle-class constituency of the National's mailing list.
The patients whose families did grasp that reality were much less likely to undergo "burdensome interventions" like feeding tubes.
Ever keen to extend its appeal beyond the pipe-puffing Fred Dibnahs whose oily hands grasp most tillers, the canal-holiday industry was beside itself when Harrison Ford pitched up at Chirk Marina with Calista Flockhart and the kids.
