“Sight isolates, sound incorporates. Whereas sight situates the observer outside what he views, at a distance, sound pours into the hearer. Vision dissects, as Merleau-Ponty has observed (1961). Vision comes to a human being from one direction at a time:… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Few Chinese who write can write all of the spoken Chinese words that they can understand. To become significantly learned in the Chinese writing… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion. — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Manuscripts were not easy to read, by later typographic standards, and what readers found in manuscripts they tended to commit at least somewhat to… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“The clichés in political denunciations in many low-technology, developing cultures—enemy of the people, capitalist war-mongers —that strike high literates as mindless are residual formulary… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the diary demands, in a way, the maximum fictionalizing of the utterer and the addressee. Writing is always a kind of imitation talking,… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“Sight isolates, sound incorporates. Whereas sight situates the observer outside what he views, at a distance, sound pours into the hearer. Vision dissects, as… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
