resonance. The ear is hyperaesthetic compared to the neutral 
eye. The ear is intolerant, closed, and exclusive, whereas the 
eye is open, neutral, and associative. Ideas of tolerance came 
to the West only after two or three centuries of literacy and 
visual Gutenberg culture. No such saturation with visual values 
had occurred in Germany by 1930. Russia is still far from any 
such involvement with visual order and values.

     If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly acquire 
new meanings and different textures. They become richer, even, 
than architecture, which Le Corbusier rightly says can best be 
felt at night. All those gestural qualities that the printed page 
strips from language come back in the dark, and on the radio. 
Given only the sound  of a play, we have to fill in all  of the 
senses, not just the sight of the action. So much do-it-yourself, 
or completion and “closure” of action, develops a kind of