could double the speed of all  events in the world? Quite simply, 
he answered. We would discern a great loss of richness in 
experience. Such seems to have been Plato’s attitude towards 
literacy and visual mimesis.

     Gombrich begins his tenth chapter of Art and Illusion  with 
further observations on visual mimesis:

     The last chapter has led this inquiry back to the old truth 
     that the discovery of appearances was not due so much 
     to a careful observation of nature as to the invention of 
     pictorial effects. I believe indeed that the ancient writers 
     who were still filled with a sense of wonder at man’s 
     capacity to fool the eye came closer to an understanding 
     of this achievement than many later critics. . . but if we 
     discard Berkeley’s theory of vision, according to which we