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displays much practical sense based on an appreciation
of the hard realities of life. . . .
What Montagu opens up here concerning the intense
practicality of the nonliterate applies perfectly as gloss to
Joyce’s Bloom or Odysseus, the resourceful man. What could be
more practical for a man caught between the Scylla of a literary
culture and the Charybdis of post-literate technology to make
himself a raft of ad copy? He is behaving like Poe’s sailor in the
Maelstrom who studied the action of the whirlpool and survives.
May not it be our job in the new electronic age to study the
action of the new vortex on the body of the older cultures?