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People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be

People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?

Neil Postman
Book, Writing, People
Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.13, Penguin

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Neil Postman
Moving, Writing, Ideas
Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.24, Penguin

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