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compose the architecture. From there the word, the voice
would issue. Such places would be focal points for
sculpture, as they are focal points for acoustics. Take up
your stand here, sculptor, if your voice is worth hearing.
(109)
It is merely trite to mention that man became the centre
via Gutenberg only to be demoted at once by Copernicus to the
status of a marginal speck. Dangling for centuries at the end of
a chain of being, man’s lineality was interrupted by Darwin
whose lineality highlighted a missing segment in the sequence.
Anyhow, Darwin broke up anthropocentric consciousness just
as Copernicus had done for space. Yet till Freud, man somehow
clung to some scrap of intuition of consciousness as tinged by
spontaneity. But Freud ended that by his image of mind as
ripple on the ocean of unconsciousness. Unless the West had