English and American languages. In the vast realm of fiction in 
the Anglo-Saxon world, the influence of the newspaper . . . the 
cinema and the radio has been evident in the best seller and 
the creation of special classes of readers with little prospect of 
communication between them.” (77) Innis is here speaking with 
ease of the interplay among literary and non-literary forms 
exactly as in the earlier quotation he was speaking of the 
interplay between the mechanization of the vernaculars and 
the rise of military, nationalist states.

     There is nothing willful or arbitrary about the Innis mode 
of expression. Were it to be translated into perspective prose, it 
would not only require huge space, but the insight into the 
modes of interplay among forms of organization would also be 
lost. Innis sacrificed point of view and prestige to his sense of 
the urgent need for insight. A point of view can be a dangerous