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. . . After this recitation he calls the name of the girl
loudly and starts to address her as though she were
listening . (p. 309)
It is a matter of “rite words in rote order,” as Joyce put it. But
once more any Western child today grows up in this kind of
magical repetitive world as he hears advertisements on radio
and TV.
Carothers next asks (p. 310) how literacy in a society
might operate to effect the change from the notion of words
as resonant, live, active, natural forces to the notion of words
as “meaning” or “significance” for minds:
I suggest that it was only when the written, and still more
the printed, word appeared on the scene that the stage