Expansion - Truls Nord
'Listening is a receptive, particitative activity in which we allow certain qualities of the being to whom we are listening to resound within us. The functioning of the eye is quite different. Instead of this built-in contemplative quality, there is a kind of pragmatism entailed by the eye’s demand for distance between us and the object of our gaze. The eye asks us to engage in a practical, instrumental relationship to the world, whereas the ear seems to invite us to overcome our separation from objects that the eye locates ’out there’ and to involve ourselves with them in a more participative form of knowing.'
Jeremy Naydler, The Future of the Ancient World