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Physiologists had very much to do with the development of
film, as they did with the telephone. On film the mechanical
appears as organic, and the growth of a flower can be
portrayed as easily and as freely as the movement of a horse.
If the movie merges the mechanical and organic in a world
of undulating forms, it also links with the technology of print.
The reader in projecting words, as it were, has to follow the
black and white sequences of stills that is typography,
providing his own sound track. He tries to follow the contours
of the author’s mind, at varying speeds and with various
illusions of understanding. It would be difficult to exaggerate
the bond between print and movie in terms of their power to
generate fantasy in the viewer or reader. Cervantes devoted his
Don Quixote entirely to this aspect of the printed word and its
power to create what James Joyce throughout Finnegans Wake