36. But the tendency for the visual to become 
“explicit” and to break off from the other senses has 
been noted even in the development of Gothic script. 
E. A. Lowe remarks: “The Gothic script is difficult to 
read . . . It is as if the written page was to be looked 
at and not read” [in “Handwriting” in C. G. Crump and 
E. F. Jacob, eds., The Legacy of the Middle Ages , p. 
223].