Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08521_Field_TCGG T286.txt

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     But the result of the fusion is that once it is achieved in
     our early years, we are for ever after unable to think
     clearly, independently and surely about any one aspect of
     the matter. We cannot think of sounds without thinking
     of letters; we believe letters have sounds. We think that
     the printed page is a picture of what we say, and that the
     mysterious thing called “spelling” is sacred. . . . The
     invention of printing broadcast the printed language and
     gave to print a degree of authority that it has never lost.”

     Stressing the latent kinesthetic effects even in silent
reading Chaytor refers to the fact that “some doctors forbid
patients with severe throat affections to read, because silent
reading provokes motions of the vocal organs, though the
reader may not be conscious of them.” He also considers (p. 6)
the interplay that is between the auditory and the visual in