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sheltered within him both the person that he had been
and the one that that great incited man aspired to be:
“Then there followed a sovereign light and wisdom, that
Our Lord infused into his mind.” (p. 163)
By way of explanation of this peculiar Spanish
consciousness of literary effects, Castro considers (p. 161)
that: “To feel books as a living, animate, Communicable and
inciting reality is a human phenomenon belonging to Oriental
tradition . . .” And it may be this oriental sensitivity to form ,
progressively numbed in the world of the alphabet, that
accounts for the unique Spanish outlook on print: “. . . but the
peculiarity of sixteenth-century Spain was the attention
accorded to the vital effect of the printed word upon its
readers; the communicative power of the word was stressed
above even errors and literary defects of the books