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and memory was hysterical. But TV has certainly made England
and America vulnerable to radio where previously they had
immunity to a great degree. For good or ill, the TV image has
exerted a unifying synaesthetic force on the sense-life of these
intensely literate populations, such as they have lacked for
centuries. It is wise to withhold all value judgments when
studying these media matters, since their effects are not
capable of being isolated.
Synaesthesia, or unified sense and imaginative life, had
long seemed an unattainable dream to Western poets,
painters, and artists in general. They had looked with sorrow
and dismay on the fragmented and impoverished imaginative
life of Western literate man in the eighteenth century and later.
Such was the message of Blake and Pater, Yeats and D. H.
Lawrence, and a host of other great figures. They were not