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Section: Deane’s Library
Type: Book Review
Date: August 19, 2017
Words: 125

“I’m not rating this because it wasn’t what I expected, and so I don’t know how to rate it. This is a book for linguists and perhaps psychologists. This is not a book for writers, and this is not a book for laypeople. This is a very dense, abstract book for people who think very abstractly and…”

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image

Section: Deane’s Library
Type: Book Review
Date: June 26, 2016
Words: 426

“Here’s the basic premise – Images and writing are very different. They utilize different parts of the brain. Images are feminine, writing is masculine. Images are perceived all at once, holistically – we step back and take in a visual scene, in aggregate. Writing, on the other hand, is sequential –…”