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Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.

Walter J. Ong

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

For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous

Walter J. Ong

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)

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