…Literacy is hardware. Handwriting. That's hardware, not parchment. It's fragmentation, specialism. I was listening to some tapes of Alan Lomax the other day of primitive dance rhythms and so on. And these apparently are quite extemporaneous. Why don't…

…wordless but not soundless ritual. Something like Eliot's, the word within a word, unable to speak a word, swaddled in darkness. Alan Lomax, from a study of ethnic song, concluded the song is danced. Song might also be called speech slowed down. Or…