Accountable Infinity However (Letters to Myself)
27 may 2003
 
They knew it then:
Thamus, king of Thebes to Theuth, supposed inventor of letters:
"being the inventor of art is different from being the one who has to decide what advantages and disadvantages it will bring to those who employ it. [...] This facility will make souls forgetful because they will no longer school themselves to meditate. They will rely on letters. Things will be recollected from outside by means of alien symbols; they will not remember on their own. What you are offering me is a drug for recollection, not for memory... Your instruction will give them only a semblance of truth, not the truth itself."

It's no accident that Plato became the Plato we all know and love: he was of the first generation (ever) to be taught how to read and write as a child.

I suppose while I'm on it, another fun reading fact is that the type of reading we do most often, ie, silently and to ourselves, wasn't invented till the 13th century.
 
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"[Her] writing suffers several inoperable zeugma and other irregularities of speech"

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