Does this not imply that if we can devise a consistent 
means of translating all  aspects of our world into the language 
of one  sense only, we shall then have a distortion that is 
scientific because consistent and coherent? Blake thought this 
had actually occurred in the eighteenth century when he 
sought liberation “from single vision and Newton’s sleep.” For 
the dominance of one sense is the formula for hypnosis. And a 
culture can be locked in the sleep of any one sense. The sleeper 
awakes when challenged in any other sense.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

*     Till now we have been concerned mostly with the written 
word as it transfers or translates the audile-tactile space of 
“sacral” nonliterate man into the visual space of civilized or 
literate or “profane” man. Once this transfer or metamorphosis