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03613_Field_PRAV T11.txt
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In the representation of reality stress is laid upon
the visual sense usually at the expense of all the
other senses. Such representation began with the
rise of phonetic literacy and cannot occur at any
time or at any place without the presence of a
technology that favors the visual sense at the
expense of all the other senses. For many people
it is one of the horrors of our present age that we
must live amidst the effects of technologies that
do not favor the visual sense in anything like the
degree that phonetic literacy does. The phonetic
alphabet, as explained in The Gutenberg Galaxy , is
the only form of writing that abstracts sight and
sound from meaning. This fact is stressed by