and memory was hysterical. But TV has certainly made England 
and America vulnerable to radio where previously they had 
immunity to a great degree. For good or ill, the TV image has 
exerted a unifying synaesthetic force on the sense-life of these 
intensely literate populations, such as they have lacked for 
centuries. It is wise to withhold all value judgments when 
studying these media matters, since their effects are not 
capable of being isolated.

     Synaesthesia, or unified sense and imaginative life, had 
long seemed an unattainable dream to Western poets, 
painters, and artists in general. They had looked with sorrow 
and dismay on the fragmented and impoverished imaginative 
life of Western literate man in the eighteenth century and later. 
Such was the message of Blake and Pater, Yeats and D. H. 
Lawrence, and a host of other great figures. They were not