ABSTRACT
Writing has its own embryology, biology, adaptational capacities, and thus its own perceptual potentialities. Written language does not transcribe voice, it performs voice, and vocal resource, and its own graphic languages; similarly, voice performs writing, and often in ways which make it alien to itself. Written language does not capture speech-sound; it releases speech-sound. Written language does not capture speech-sound; it releases speech-sound. The differences between the spoken and written languages are thus the source of reciprocal enlargement, continual supplementation, so that voice, like writing, ends up in another place. The written and the spoken have established themselves as different manifestations of the one language, each with its own particular resources and capabilities. Writing, like the speaking voice, and like the listening ear, can become an improvisational medium. The hand is the channel through which one speaks and reads one's own writing. The word-processed text is not so much the record of writing as the result of editing.
