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and sedentary man, do not faze Eliade. That Eliade chooses to
call the oral man “religious” is, of course, as fanciful and
arbitrary as calling blondes bestial. But it is not in the least
confusing to those who understand that the “religious” for
Eliade is, as he insists from the start, the irrational. He is in
that very large company of literacy victims who have
acquiesced in supposing that the “rational” is the explicitly
lineal, sequential, visual. That is, he prefers to appear as an
eighteenth-century mind in rebellion against the dominant
visual mode which then was new. Such was Blake and a host of
others. Today Blake would be violently anti-Blake, because the
Blake reaction against the abstract visual is now the dominant
cliché and claque of the big battalions, as they move in
regimented grooves of sensibility.
“For religious man, space is not homogeneous; he