Until more than two centuries after printing nobody discovered 
how to maintain a single tone or attitude throughout a 
prose composition.

Later medieval visual stress muddied liturgical piety as much as 
electronic-field pressure has clarified it today.

The “interface” of the Renaissance was the meeting of medieval 
pluralism and modern homogeneity and mechanism—a 
formula for blitz and metamorphosis.

Petrus Ramus and John Dewey were the two educational 
“surfers” or wave-riders of antithetic periods, the 
Gutenberg and the Marconi or electronic.

Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a