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It is one of Castro’s principal themes that the structure of
Spanish history is axiologically inclined between the literate
West and the oral Moorish East. “Even Cervantes expresses
more than once a longing for Moorish justice, in spite of his
long captivity in Algiers.” And it was the Moorish strain which
immunized the Spaniards against the visual quantifications of
literacy. Study of the Spanish case offers especially significant
light on the diverse effects of literacy as print technology
encounters unique cultures. The Spanish preference for living at
the passionate centre may have an analogue in Russia where,
unlike Japan, the effects of print technology have not extended
to the discovery of consumer goods. And the oral Russian
attitude to technology has a passionate character that may
inure them, too, against the uses of literacy.
Castro has a fine essay on “Incarnation in Don Quixote ” in