experiences interruptions, breaks in it.” (p. 20) Likewise in time. 
For the modern physicist, as also for the nonliterate, space is 
not homogeneous, nor is time. By contrast, the geometrical 
space invented in antiquity, far from being diverse, unique, 
pluralistic, sacral, “can be cut and delimited in any direction; 
but no qualitative differentiation and, hence, no orientation are 
given by virtue of its inherent structure.” (p. 22) The next 
statement applies entirely to the relative interplay of the 
optical and the auditory modes in the shaping of human 
sensibility:

          It must be added at once that such a profane 
     existence is never found in the pure state. To whatever 
     degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who 
     has made his choice in favor of a profane life never 
     succeeds in completely doing away with religious