Everything seemed cut off at its root and therefore infected with illusion." A Passage to India (the phrase is from Whitman, who saw America headed Eastward) is a parable of Western man in the electric age, and is only incidentally related to Europe or the Orient. The ultimate conflict between sight and sound, between written and oral kinds of perception and organization of existence is upon us. Since understanding stops action, as Nietzsche observed, we can moderate the fierceness of this conflict by understanding the media that extend us and raise these wars within and without us. Detribalization by literacy and its traumatic effects on tribal man is the theme of a book by the psychiatrist J. C. Carothers, The African Mind in Health and Disease (World Health Organization, Geneva, 195 3) . Much of his material appeared in an article in Psychiatry magazine, November, 1959: "The Culture, Psychiatry, and the Written Word." Again, it is
I crossed my arms. "Let's just get this over with. I don't want to see you anymore." 8 Gideon shoved a hand through his hair and exhaled harshly. "You don't mean that." I was suddenly very tired, exhausted from fighting with myself over him. "I really do. You and me...it was a mistake." His jaw tightened. "It wasn't. The way I handled it afterward was the mistake." I stared at him, startled by the fierceness of his denial. "I wasn't talking about the sex, Gideon. I'm talking about my agreeing to this crazy strangers-with-benefits deal between us. I knew it was all wrong from the beginning. I should've listened to my instincts." "Do you want to be with me, Eva?" "No. That's what-" "Not like we discussed at the bar. More than that." My heart started to pound. "What are you talking about?" "Everything." He left the bar and came closer. "I want to be with you."
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