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♦ “IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE A THUNDER-CLAP”: “The Alphabetization of Homer,” in Eric Alfred Havelock and Jackson P. Hershbell, Communication Arts in the Ancient World (New York: Hastings House, 1978), 3.
♦ “HAPPENS, UP TO THE PRESENT DAY”: Aristotle, Poetics, trans. William Hamilton Fyfe (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953), 1447b.
♦ HAVELOCK DESCRIBED IT AS CULTURAL WARFARE: Eric A. Havelock, Preface to Plato (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963), 300–301.
♦ “A BEGINNING IS THAT WHICH ITSELF DOES NOT FOLLOW”: Aristotle, Poetics, 1450b.
♦ “THE MULTITUDE CANNOT ACCEPT”: Republic, 6.493e. Cf. in Eric A. Havelock, Preface to Plato, 282.
♦ “LOSE THEMSELVES AND WANDER”: Republic, 6.484b.
♦ “TRYING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY”: Eric A. Havelock, Preface to Plato, 282.
♦ LOGIC DESCENDED FROM THE WRITTEN WORD: Not everyone agrees with all this. A counterargument: John Halverson, “Goody and the Implosion of the Literacy Thesis,” Man 27, no. 2 (1992): 301–17.
♦ IF IT IS POSSIBLE FOR NO MAN TO BE A HORSE: Aristotle, Prior Analytics, trans. A. J. Jenkinson, 1:3.
♦ “WE KNOW THAT FORMAL LOGIC”: Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy, 49.
♦ FIELDWORK OF THE RUSSIAN PSYCHOLOGIST: A. R. Luria, Cognitive Development, Its Cultural and Social Foundations (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976), 86.
♦ “BASICALLY THE PEASANT WAS RIGHT”: Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy, 53.
♦ “IN THE INFANCY OF LOGIC”: Benjamin Jowett, introduction to Plato’s Theaetetus (Teddington, U.K.: Echo Library, 2006), 7.
♦ “WHEN A WHITE HORSE IS NOT A HORSE”: Gongsun Long, “When a White Horse Is Not a Horse,” trans. by A. C. Graham, in P. J. Ivanhoe et al., Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, 2nd ed. (Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2005), 363–66. Also A. C. Graham, Studies in Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature, SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), 178.
♦ “WRITING, LIKE A THEATER CURTAIN GOING UP”: Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), 177.
♦ “TO THE ASSYRIANS, THE CHALDEANS, AND EGYPTIANS”: Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge, 3rd ed. (London: 1722), 5.
♦ “THIS PROCESS OF CONQUEST AND INFLUENCE”: Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, 198.
♦ TO FORM LARGE NUMBERS, THE BABYLONIANS: Donald E. Knuth, “Ancient Babylonian Algorithms,” Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 15, no. 7 (1972): 671–77.
♦ “IT WAS ASSUMED THAT THE BABYLONIANS”: Asger Aaboe, Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics (New York: L. W. Singer, 1963), 5.
♦ “OUR TASK CAN THEREFORE PROPERLY BE COMPARED”: Otto Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity, 2nd ed. (Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1957), 30 and 40–46.
♦ “A CISTERN. THE HEIGHT IS 3,20”: Donald E. Knuth, “Ancient Babylonian Algorithms,” 672.
♦ “FUNDAMENTALLY LETTERS ARE SHAPES”: John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, I:13, quoted and translated by M. T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record, England, 1066-1307 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979), 202.
♦ “OH! ALL YE WHO SHALL HAVE HEARD”: Ibid.
♦ “I CANNOT HELP FEELING”: Phaedrus, trans. Benjamin Jowett, 275d.
♦ “WE ARE IN OUR CENTURY ‘WINDING THE TAPE BACKWARD’ ”: Marshall McLuhan, “Media and Cultural Change,” in Essential McLuhan, 92.
♦ “THE LARGER THE NUMBER OF SENSES INVOLVED”: Jonathan Miller, Marshall McLuhan, 3.
♦ “ACOUSTIC SPACE IS ORGANIC”: Playboy interview, March 1969, in Essential McLuhan, 240.
♦ “MEN LIVED UPON GROSS EXPERIENCE”: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall, and Civill, (1651; repr., London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886), 299.
♦ “MOST LITERATE PERSONS, WHEN YOU SAY”: Walter J. Ong, “This Side of Oral Culture and of Print,” Lincoln Lecture (1973), 2.
♦ “IT IS DEMORALIZING TO REMIND ONESELF”: Walter J. Ong, Orality