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Television is a tranquil and relatively individual
medium, fostering many book values, indirectly. I
wish I had the time to go into detail, but as an
example, the TV image unlike the film image
constitutes you not the camera, but the screen. It
is of low visual definition, and the image effected by
luminous spots has a high tactual impact like
contour in prints and engravings giving the TV
image a strong sculptural quality, which is also to
say a strong auditory quality . . . Sculpture is
perched on the frontiers of sight and sound, and is
a necessary phase prior to the development of
writing in any society. Our own re-conquest of the
tactual, the kinesthetic and the sculptural in the