follows, the words of a Russian critic of Tolstoy about “War and 
World (peace. . . . But nonetheless culture not stands) costs on 
place. Something translate. Something print.” (Boorstin, 141)

     Our very word “grasp” or “apprehension” points to the 
process of getting at one thing through another, of handling 
and sensing many facets at a time through more than one 
sense at a time. It begins to be evident that “touch” is not skin 
but the interplay of the senses, and “keeping in touch” or 
“getting in touch” is a matter of a fruitful meeting of the 
senses, of sight translated into sound and sound into 
movement, and taste and smell. The “common sense” was for 
many centuries held to be the peculiar human power of 
translating one kind of experience of one sense into all the 
senses, and presenting the result continuously as a unified 
image to the mind. In fact, this image of a unified ratio among