such as tribal, auditory man had made no effort to visualize. 
That is to say, detribalization, individualization, and 
pictorialization are all one. The magical mode disappears in 
proportion as interior events are made visually manifest. But 
such manifestation is also reduction and distortion of complex 
relations which are more fully sensed when there is full interplay 
of all the senses at once.

     Mimesis to Plato had appeared, quite understandably, as 
varieties of representation, especially visual. In his Poetics  4, 
Aristotle made mimesis central to his entire cognitive and 
epistemological world, not limiting it to any one sense. But the 
first onset of literacy, and, therefore, of visuality as abstracted 
from the other senses, seemed to Plato a diminution of 
ontological awareness, or an impoverishment of Being. Bergson 
somewhere asks, how should we be able to know if some agent