Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08373_Field_TCGG T138.txt

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paint as if you held, rather than as if you saw, objects.

A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of
the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations
of our senses.

*     It is very much worth dwelling on this matter, since we shall
see that from the invention of the alphabet there has been a
continuous drive in the Western world toward the separation of
the senses, of functions, of operations, of states emotional
and political, as well as of tasks—a fragmentation which
terminated, thought Durkheim, in the anomie of the nineteenth
century. The paradox presented by Professor von Békésy is that
the two-dimensional mosaic is, in fact, a multidimensional
world of interstructural resonance. It is the three-dimensional
world of pictorial space that is, indeed, an abstract illusion built