Reading and writing in this respect represent an intense degree of specialization of experience. Writing meant that the acoustic world with its magic power over the being of things was arrested and banished to a humble sphere. Writing meant the power of fixing the flux of words and of thought. Writing permitted analysis of thought-processes which gave rise to the categories of knowledge. With writing came the power of visually enclosing not only acoustic space but architectural space. With writing came the separation of music from the dance, of both from words. Before writing, all these divisions were merged in a single “mythic” knowledge, a single rhythm where there was no present but all was now. FOUR QUARTETS of T. S. Eliot is a complete guide to our own recovery of acoustic modes of knowing our own and past experience. FINNEGANS WAKE of James Joyce is a verbal universe in which press, movie, radio, TV merge with the languages of the world to form a Feenichts Playhouse of metamorphoses.