Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09097_Field_TCGG T862.txt

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     with it; but of making writing , simple writing, beautiful to
     the eye, by investing it with the great chord of perfect
     color, blue, purple, scarlet, white, and gold, and in that
     chord of color, permitting the continual play of the fancy
     of the writer in every species of grotesque imagination,
     carefully excluding shadow; the distinctive difference
     between illumination and painting proper, being, that
     illumination admits no  shadows, but only gradations of
     pure color.

     The student of Rimbaud will find that it was while reading
this part of Ruskin that Rimbaud found his title for
Illuminations . The technique of vision in the Illuminations  or
“painted slides,” (as Rimbaud called them, in English, on his
title page) is exactly as Ruskin delineates the grotesque. But
even Joyce’s Ulysses  finds anticipatory designation in the same