Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08464_Field_TCGG T229.txt

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experiences interruptions, breaks in it.” (p. 20) Likewise in time.
For the modern physicist, as also for the nonliterate, space is
not homogeneous, nor is time. By contrast, the geometrical
space invented in antiquity, far from being diverse, unique,
pluralistic, sacral, “can be cut and delimited in any direction;
but no qualitative differentiation and, hence, no orientation are
given by virtue of its inherent structure.” (p. 22) The next
statement applies entirely to the relative interplay of the
optical and the auditory modes in the shaping of human
sensibility:

          It must be added at once that such a profane
     existence is never found in the pure state. To whatever
     degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who
     has made his choice in favor of a profane life never
     succeeds in completely doing away with religious