Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08540_Field_TCGG T305.txt

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sense from the audile-tactile. This involves the modern reader in
total translation of sight into sound as he looks  at the page.
Recall of material read by the eye then is confused by the effort
to recall it both visually and auditorially. People with “good
memories” are the ones with “photographic memories.” That is,
they do not translate back and forth from eye to ear and do
not have things “on the tip of the tongue,” which is our state
when we do not know whether to see or hear a past experience.

     Before turning to the oral and auditory world of the Middle
Ages in its erudite and artistic aspects, there are two
passages, one from the earliest and one from the latest phases
of the medieval world that indicate the ordinary assumption
that the act of reading was oral and even dramatic.

     The first passage is from The Rule of Saint Benedict ,