sheltered within him both the person that he had been 
     and the one that that great incited man aspired to be: 
     “Then there followed a sovereign light and wisdom, that 
     Our Lord infused  into his mind.” (p. 163)

     By way of explanation of this peculiar Spanish 
consciousness of literary effects, Castro considers (p. 161) 
that: “To feel books as a living, animate, Communicable and 
inciting reality is a human phenomenon belonging to Oriental 
tradition . . .” And it may be this oriental sensitivity to form , 
progressively numbed in the world of the alphabet, that 
accounts for the unique Spanish outlook on print: “. . . but the 
peculiarity of sixteenth-century Spain was the attention 
accorded to the vital effect of the printed word upon its 
readers; the communicative power of the word was stressed 
above even errors and literary defects of the books