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change of voice and gesture. (p. 3)
The twelfth century audience took these recitals in
instalments but “we can sit and read it at our leisure and turn
back to previous pages at our will. In short, the history of the
progress from script to print is a history of the gradual
substitution of visual for auditory methods of communicating
and receiving ideas.” (p. 4) Chaytor quotes (p. 7) a passage
from Our Spoken Language by A. Lloyd James (p. 29) which
comes to grips with the alteration of our sense lives by way of
literacy:
“Sound and sight, speech and print, eye and ear
have nothing in common. The human brain has done
nothing that compares in complexity with this fusion of
ideas involved in linking up the two forms of language.