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Description: Illich begins his analysis by establishing the goal of the medieval reader, which Chapter 1 (Danny Thomas) shows is Wisdom, or the First Cause. This wisdom isn't relative; it's a fixed truth, much like the huge 'S' Danny is pointing at. It rests on sentences that carry their own authority, detached from the writer—the floating sentence. But how does one acquire this fixed wisdom? Chapter 2 (Nick Nolte) answers this by stressing the necessity of internal Order and Memory. Nolte's desperate need for bread shows the necessity of internalizing the text's objective order—the reader must literally pres...