One of Balázs's central ideas was the unmediated visibleness of the spiritual in the physical, and this was closely connected with the notion of a corresponding visual resensitizing of the individual through the filmic image, through which we finally see things with our eyes, that would cause us to close our eyes if appearing in reality, as he wrote elsewhere.

[…] I discovered two Gallies making towards Nicita, whom I saluted with two Cannons, which I levelled and fired my self, so happily, that one of them being shot through between wind and water, was fain to go off to refit, and the other had three or four slaves killed.

Sony's was the only deck to accept ferrichrome tape, which has now become rare. Most decks have ceased to cater for it since the advent of metal tape.

Instead of drivelling away the precious initiative season of life in the vain labour of teaching tuneable voices to sing[.]