A, B, C (Samuel R. Delany) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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The evolutionary journey from blindness to the ability to visually recognize individuals and places is as amazing as the journey from deafness and muteness to spoken language, if not more so. (And neither journey has been completed. Consider the importance of the overlap in the past five thousand years.) But it couldn’t have happened if we — and I include all of humankind’s forerunners — hadn’t first developed our ability to recognize groups of us and individuals among them by smell, and all of which was innately entailed in the sexual imagination and — if people will let it be — still is.