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Old 02-25-2014, 04:15 PM   #69
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On a related note -

Interesting OpEd fron the NY Times - Audiobooks and the Return of Storytelling - outside the paywall (for now).

Quote:
The ability to read has always been invested with more importance than mere speech.... But for most of human history literature has been spoken out loud. The Iliad and the Odyssey were sung.

- T. M. Luhrmann
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