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faculty becomes a closed system. Prior to such outering there
is entire interplay, among experiences. This interplay or
synesthesia is a kind of tactility such as Blake sought in the
bounding line of sculptural form and in engraving.
When the perverse ingenuity of man has outered some
part of his being in material technology, his entire sense ratio is
altered. He is then compelled to behold this fragment of himself
“closing itself as in steel.” In beholding this new thing, man is
compelled to become it. Such was the origin of lineal,
fragmented analysis with its remorseless power of
homogenization:
The Reasoning Spectre
Stands between the Vegetative Man & his Immortal
Imagination. (2)