principle, the supreme ‘ricorso’ is achieved by the human spirit 
in idea, and it possesses itself, past, present, and future, in an 
act which is wholly consonant with its own historicity.” (108)

Typography cracked the voices of silence.

*     From the plastic and audile-tactile world of southern Italy 
came an answer to the lineal anguish of the segmenters of the 
Gutenberg milieu. So thought Michelet and Joyce. Let us briefly 
return to the space question as affected by Gutenberg. 
Everybody is familiar with the phrase, “the voices of silence.” It 
is the traditional word for sculpture. And if an entire year of any 
college program were spent in understanding that phrase, the 
world might soon have an adequate supply of competent 
minds. As the Gutenberg typography filled the world the human 
voice closed down. People began to read silently and passively