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The typographic logic created the outsider, the alienated man,
as the type of integral, that is, intuitive and irrational, man.
* If Lowenthal is right, we have spent much energy and
fury in recent centuries in destroying oral culture by print
technology so that the uniformly processed individuals of
commercial society can return to oral marginal spots as
tourists and consumers, whether geographical or artistic. The
eighteenth century began to spend its time at the Metropolitan
Opera as it were. Having refined and homogenized and
visualised itself to the point of self-alienation, it hied off to the
Hebrides, the Indies, the Americas, the transcendental
imagination, and especially to childhood, in search of natural
man. D. H. Lawrence and others repeated this Odyssey in our
day with much acclaim. It is a performance of automatic kind.
Art tends to become a mere compensation for a top-sided life.