detribalizing of the individual has, in the past at least, 
depended on an intense visual life fostered by literacy, and by 
literacy of the alphabetic kind alone. For alphabetic writing is 
not only unique but late. There had been much writing before it. 
In fact, any people that ceases to be nomadic and pursues 
sedentary modes of work is ready to invent writing. No merely 
nomadic people ever had writing any more than they ever 
developed architecture or “enclosed space.” For writing is a 
visual enclosure of non-visual spaces and senses. It is, 
therefore, an abstraction of the visual from the ordinary sense 
interplay. And whereas speech is an outering (utterance) of all 
of our senses at once, writing abstracts from speech.

     At the present time it is easier to grasp this specific 
technology of writing. The new institutes for teaching speeded-
up reading habits work on the separation of eye movements