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system had been prepared in advance for the fall that occurred
unexpectedly.
Depending on which sense or faculty is extended
technologically, or “autoamputated,” the “closure” or
equilibrium-seeking among the other senses is fairly predictable.
It is with the senses as it is with color. Sensation is always 100
per cent, and a color is always 100 per cent color. But the ratio
among the components in the sensation or the color can differ
infinitely. Yet if sound, for example, is intensified, touch and
taste and sight are affected at once. The effect of radio on
literate or visual man was to reawaken his tribal memories, and
the effect of sound added to motion pictures was to diminish
the role of mime, tactility, and kinesthesis. Similarly, when
nomadic man turned to sedentary and specialist ways, the
senses specialized too. The development of writing and the