Quote of the day
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Walter J. Ong

Born: November 30, 1912
Died: August 12, 2003 (aged 90)
Bio: Walter Jackson Ong was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher.
Known for:
- Orality and literacy (1982)
- Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue (1958)
- The presence of the word (1967)
- Interfaces of the Word (1977)
- Rhetoric, romance, and technology (1971)