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resonance. The ear is hyperaesthetic compared to the neutral
eye. The ear is intolerant, closed, and exclusive, whereas the
eye is open, neutral, and associative. Ideas of tolerance came
to the West only after two or three centuries of literacy and
visual Gutenberg culture. No such saturation with visual values
had occurred in Germany by 1930. Russia is still far from any
such involvement with visual order and values.
If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly acquire
new meanings and different textures. They become richer, even,
than architecture, which Le Corbusier rightly says can best be
felt at night. All those gestural qualities that the printed page
strips from language come back in the dark, and on the radio.
Given only the sound of a play, we have to fill in all of the
senses, not just the sight of the action. So much do-it-yourself,
or completion and “closure” of action, develops a kind of