“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
-Cicero (probably apocryphal)
“The words the reader sees are not the words that he will hear.”
-James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, paraphrased by Mcluhan
Sources: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/lxfj6d/111_the_manuscript_age_part_1_silent_reading_in/?
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