intones, and scampers, always reacting to his own actions. He 
moves entirely in the spoken rather than the written area of 
experience. It is in this way that audience participation is 
created. The spoken word involves all of the senses 
dramatically, though highly literate people tend to speak as 
connectedly and casually as possible. The sensuous 
involvement natural to cultures in which literacy is not the 
ruling form of experience is sometimes indicated in travel 
guides, as in this item from a guide to Greece:

          You will notice that many Greek men seem to spend 
     a lot of time counting the beads of what appear to be 
     amber rosaries. But these have no religious significance. 
     They are komboloia  or “worry beads,” a legacy from the 
     Turks, and Greeks click them on land, on the sea, in the 
     air to ward off that insupportable silence which threatens