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Does this not imply that if we can devise a consistent
means of translating all aspects of our world into the language
of one sense only, we shall then have a distortion that is
scientific because consistent and coherent? Blake thought this
had actually occurred in the eighteenth century when he
sought liberation “from single vision and Newton’s sleep.” For
the dominance of one sense is the formula for hypnosis. And a
culture can be locked in the sleep of any one sense. The sleeper
awakes when challenged in any other sense.
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
* Till now we have been concerned mostly with the written
word as it transfers or translates the audile-tactile space of
“sacral” nonliterate man into the visual space of civilized or
literate or “profane” man. Once this transfer or metamorphosis