Having asked myself this question some time ago, 
     the following feature emerged: the printed word is an 
     arrested moment of mental movement. To read print is to 
     act both as movie projector and audience for a mental 
     movie. The reader attains a strong feeling of participation 
     in the total motions of a mind in the process of thinking. 
     But is it not basically the printed word’s ‘still shot’ that 
     fosters a habit of mind which tackles all problems of 
     movement and change in terms of the unmoved segment 
     or section? Has not print inspired a hundred different 
     mathematical and analytical procedures for explaining 
     and controlling change in terms of the unchanging? Have 
     we not tended to apply this very static feature to print 
     itself and talked only of its quantitative effects? Do we 
     not speak more of the power of print to increase 
     knowledge and to extend literacy than the most obvious