system had been prepared in advance for the fall that occurred 
unexpectedly.

     Depending on which sense or faculty is extended 
technologically, or “autoamputated,” the “closure” or 
equilibrium-seeking among the other senses is fairly predictable. 
It is with the senses as it is with color. Sensation is always 100 
per cent, and a color is always 100 per cent color. But the ratio 
among the components in the sensation or the color can differ 
infinitely. Yet if sound, for example, is intensified, touch and 
taste and sight are affected at once. The effect of radio on 
literate or visual man was to reawaken his tribal memories, and 
the effect of sound added to motion pictures was to diminish 
the role of mime, tactility, and kinesthesis. Similarly, when 
nomadic man turned to sedentary and specialist ways, the 
senses specialized too. The development of writing and the