When the Gutenberg technology hit the human sensibility silent reading at high speed became possible for the first time. Semantic uniformity set in as well as "correct" spelling. The reader had the illusion of separate and private individuality and of "inner light" resulting from his exposure to seas of ink. The chiasmus of the process is given epic treatment in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad, whose closing lines sum up the liquidation of trivium and the quadrivium: "Art after art goes out and all is night."