From the fact that we need senses to experience it does not follow that we are remote from them. Having tactile sensations, for example, is not like feeling things through gloves: The second keeps us away from things; the first puts us in contact with them. When we feel things, we feel them; we typically do not feel our feeling of them. This would involve a different notion of feeling—even if a notion that piggybacks on the first one. (Is this a place we might have use for the notion of sense-data?)
Texts can be like the senses—ways of opening up the world for us. And they can be like gloves—ways of keeping the world remote from us. And as wearing gloves can bring attention to the way things feel (by truncating sensations, they can make us notice, feel, the feeling of things) so can texts bring attention to the ways in which we think things.