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the dynamism which is so characteristic of the auditory
world in general, and of the spoken word in particular.
They lose much of the personal element, in the sense that
the heard word is most commonly directed at oneself,
whereas the seen word most commonly is not, and can be
read or not as whim dictates. They lose those emotional
overtones and emphases which have been described, for
instance, by Monrad-Krohn. . . . Thus, in general, words,
by becoming visible, join a world of relative indifference to
the viewer—a world from which the magic ‘power’ of the
word has been abstracted.
Carothers continues his observations into the area of
“free ideation” permitted to literate societies and quite out of
the question for oral, nonliterate communities: