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and empires, is an extension, via letters, of the visual sense.
The brick wall is not a mosaic form , and neither is the mosaic
form a visual structure. The mosaic can be seen as dancing
can, but is not structured visually; nor is it an extension of the
visual power. For the mosaic is not uniform, continuous, or
repetitive. It is discontinuous, skew, and nonlineal, like the
tactual TV image. To the sense of touch, all things are sudden,
counter, original, spare, strange. The “Pied Beauty” of G. M.
Hopkins is a catalogue of the notes of the sense of touch. The
poem is a manifesto of the nonvisual, and like Cézanne or
Seurat or Rouault it provides an indispensable approach to
understanding TV. The nonvisual mosaic structures of modern
art, like those of modern physics and electric-information
patterns, permit little detachment. The mosaic form of the TV
image demands participation and involvement in depth of the
whole being, as does the sense of touch. Literacy, in contrast,