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the whole indifferent to him.” Since the ear world is a hot
hyperaesthetic world and the eye world is relatively a cool,
neutral world, the Westerner appears to people of ear culture to
be a very cold fish indeed. (2)
Carothers reviews the familiar nonliterate idea of the
“power” of words where thought and behavior depend upon the
magical resonance in words and their power to impose their
assumptions relentlessly. He cites Kenyatta concerning love
magic among the Kikuyu:
It is very important to acquire the correct use of magical
words and their proper intonations, for the progress in
applying magic effectively depends on uttering these
words in their ritual order. . . . In performing these acts of
love magic the performer has to recite a magical formula.