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could double the speed of all events in the world? Quite simply,
he answered. We would discern a great loss of richness in
experience. Such seems to have been Plato’s attitude towards
literacy and visual mimesis.
Gombrich begins his tenth chapter of Art and Illusion with
further observations on visual mimesis:
The last chapter has led this inquiry back to the old truth
that the discovery of appearances was not due so much
to a careful observation of nature as to the invention of
pictorial effects. I believe indeed that the ancient writers
who were still filled with a sense of wonder at man’s
capacity to fool the eye came closer to an understanding
of this achievement than many later critics. . . but if we
discard Berkeley’s theory of vision, according to which we