By surpassing writing, we have regained our WHOLENESS, not on a … — “Five Sovereign Fingers Taxed the Breath”, in Shenandoah The Washington And Lee University Review, Vol. VII, No. 1, Autumn (1955), p 51, reprinted in Explorations 4, (1955), p 32. Explorations in Communication: an Anthology (1960), p 208

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By surpassing writing, we have regained our WHOLENESS, not on a national or cultural, but cosmic, plane. We have evoked a super-civilized, sub-primitive man.

“Five Sovereign Fingers Taxed the Breath”, in Shenandoah The Washington And Lee University Review, Vol. VII, No. 1, Autumn (1955), p 51, reprinted in Explorations 4, (1955), p 32. Explorations in Communication: an Anthology (1960), p 208

Quote #2349

Year: 1955

Chapters: From Tribal to Literate | Postliteracy | Today’s Transition

↪ Also at #5607, #6829

Notes: *The Explorations version replaces “By” with “In”