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But the early printers avoided Roman letters except to create
the illusion of the fake antique, of the old Roman letters
beloved of the Renaissance humanists.
It is strange that modern readers have been so slow to
recognize that the prose of Gertrude Stein, with its lack of
punctuation and other visual aids, is a carefully devised
strategy to get the passive visual reader into participant, oral
action. So with e. e. cummings, or Pound, or Eliot. Vers libre is
for the ear as much as for the eye. And in Finnegans Wake
when Joyce wants to create “thunder,” the “shout in the
street” indicating a major phase of collective action, he sets up
the word exactly like an ancient manuscript word: “The fall
(bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonn
erronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohooardenenthu
rnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and