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point of view of visual awarenesses of the kind that have
to be used in an art museum the object is a unity that
cannot be broken down into separate qualities without
becoming merely a collection of abstractions that have
only conceptual existence and no actuality. In a funny
way words and their necessary linear syntactical order
forbid us to describe objects and compel us to use very
poor and inadequate lists of theoretical ingredients in the
manner exemplified more concretely by the ordinary cook
book recipes.
Any phonetic alphabet culture can easily slip into the
habit of putting one thing under or in another; since there is
constant pressure from the subliminal fact that the written
code carries for the reader the experience of the “content”
which is speech. But there is nothing subliminal in nonliterate