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a two-dimensional mosaic. But it is a mode of awareness in art
language and literature which the West took great pains to
eliminate by means of Gutenberg technology. It has returned in
our time, for good or ill, as this opening paragraph of a recent
book (84) indicates:
Language gives evidence of its reality through three
categories of human experience. The first may be
considered as the meaning of words; the second, as
those meanings enshrined in grammatical forms; and the
third and, in the view of this author, the most significant,
as those meanings which lie beyond grammatical forms,
those meanings mysteriously and miraculously revealed
to man. It is with the last category that this chapter will
endeavor to deal, for its thesis is that thought itself must
be accompanied by a critical understanding of the