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Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away
from visual to auditory stress.
* It is interesting that today there is a growing unrest about
our alphabetic dissociation of the senses. On page 49 there is
a sample of a recent attempt at a new alphabet that would
restore more phonic character to our script. The most notable
thing about the sample is that it has the highly textural and
tactile quality of an ancient manuscript page. In our desire to
restore some unity of interplay among our senses we grope
towards ancient manuscript forms which must be read aloud to
be read at all. Side by side with this extreme development is
that of the new institutes for speeded-up reading. There they
are taught how to use the eye on the page so as to avoid all
verbalization and all incipient movements of the throat which
accompany our cinematic chase from left to right, in order to