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Author, midwife at delivery of: new literary form, new theater, new science, new music, new art…
Montaigne, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Cervantes, break loose from tradition of literacy-of-letters that cannot resist bend back to their own beginnings in script of Scripts.
And Shakespeare, knew voice of speech won’t let itself be dominated by letter of script.
And Galilei, replace teleology-of-science by stand-alone operation through principle of evidence, by means of experimentation.
And music, on brink of new era soon enough establish common practice of differentiating well-tempered tonality of major and minor, lasting for the next 300 years or so.
And Caravaggio/Artemisia Gentileschi, sucked up and absorbed by irresistible pull of strong picture vacuum unknown to their predecessors, who, in comparison, programmatically restricted themselves to marking with line and color some compliant support for eyes-of-eyesight to read like some print, affording primarily optical presence of a plotter in front of a ’window’ screen (as of a linear perspective or some variation thereof). No draft nor pull to sweep away or gobble up author and beholder disappear get lost or get home in the process.