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own mental processes, and most of us are far from
competent in this respect, the fact remains that his idea
of language is irrevocably modified by his experience of
printed matter.
The alternating of modes or ratios between habitual
patterns of sight and sound experience creates a large gap
between the mental processes of the medieval and the modern
reader. Chaytor writes (p. 10):
Nothing is more alien to medievalism than the modern
reader, skimming the headlines of a newspaper and
glancing down its columns to glean any point of interest,
racing through the pages of some dissertation to
discover whether it is worth his more careful
consideration, and pausing to gather the argument of a