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What can visual arts do that literature can't?
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What can visual arts do that literature can't?
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>HOLY
>ROMAN
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a thousand words
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>>1373040
What can a face-to-face conversation do that a wall of text can't?
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>>1373040
Transcend the limits of linearity by instantly juxtaposing complex metaphors using visual and aural semiotics. However, provided you had an infinite amount of time to read everything ever written, the question of the overall information that is produced by each medium is one of quality rather than quantity, so it may be difficult to provide an objective answer here.
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>>1373040
pictures r nice
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Activate more extensive symbol recognition processes than interpreting written language does. It also pleases different sensory cravings, much like music.
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