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But it was the method used everywhere, even by Percy
Wyndham Lewis, the critical analyst of the return of auditory
space to the twentieth century, in his Time and Western Man .
And so, Seltman pursues an acoustic field approach, even to
the story of the origins of perspective (p. 31):
. . . Homer cannot be described as more childish than
Aeschylus, but as a different kind of poet; Plato is not
called a riper stylist than Thucydides, but a different kind
of writer with a different theme; St. Paul’s letters are not
more decadent than Cicero’s, merely different. For the
literature of the ancient world this Growth and Decay
Formula will not work. Are we justified in applying it to
Fine Art?
“Well,” you may say, “why worry if people have this