It is the visual stress in phonetic writing that 
makes it primarily an extension of the visual 
faculty, and makes it necessary for literate people 
to understand the modality of the visual sense. 
Alex Leighton once said: “To the blind all things 
are sudden,” drawing attention to a dominant 
characteristic of the visual. To the seeing man 
nothing is sudden. To the phonetically literate, the 
extension of the visual power in space and time 
endows him with a sense of continuity, of 
sequence and of transition, of causes and effect 
quite beyond the power of him who lacks this 
amplification of the visual power. The phonetically 
literate acquires detachment and non-involvement