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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