Greeting, Hmmm. The oral tradition, like the visual tradition, also held words in place over time, but in a way that was far less tangible than words on a tablet or page. Within the oral tradition, verbal thought could live only as inner dialogue or spoken language and was an experience in the now. I don't suppose we have any conception of the breadth and depth of memory for those ancients. Shared wisdom was collected in verse. Poetry was created and disseminated by a few, it was a social medium, but it was still received as an _immediate experience_. It boggles my mind to think about it. The oral tradition was much more dynamic than what was to arrive with the visual tradition. (I can also see that the visual tradition would offer a new kind of freedom --- at a price.) Hypothetically,
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