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Acoustic space is spherical. It is without bounds
or vanishing points. It is structured by pitch
separation and kinesthesia. It is not a container.
It is not hollowed out. It is the space in which men
live before the invention of writing—that
translation of the acoustic into the visual. Pre-
literate man does not trust his eyes very much.
The magic is in sound for him, with its powers to
evoke the absent.
Marshall McLuhan to Wyndham Lewis, Dec. 18,
1954, Letters of Marshall McLuhan , (Toronto,
1987), p. 245.