Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09026_Field_TCGG T791.txt

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     remove from it its old form and impose upon it a new one.

     It may be a mistake for Poulet or anybody else to see in
this new strategy of Montaigne some extraordinarily profound
discovery of enterprise. But just as the infinitesimal calculus
was devised to translate non-visual experience into
homogeneous visual terms, so Montaigne’s seizing the
imperceptible instant or facet, as “diversely and imperceptibly
our soul darts out her passions,” is entering “the home of what
Leibniz was later to call the infinitely small entities. . . . It is a
wager to attempt to ‘choose and lay hold of so many nimble
little motions’. . . . Thus the self is dissolved not only from
instant to instant but even in the middle of the instant-
passage, in a prismatic play like that of a spray of water.” (98)

     What is being presented here is identical with the