Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/05762_Field_GGFN T43.txt

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36. But the tendency for the visual to become
“explicit” and to break off from the other senses has
been noted even in the development of Gothic script.
E. A. Lowe remarks: “The Gothic script is difficult to
read . . . It is as if the written page was to be looked
at and not read” [in “Handwriting” in C. G. Crump and
E. F. Jacob, eds., The Legacy of the Middle Ages , p.
223].