"The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all."

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Source : Jack Goody (1975). “Literacy in Traditional Societies”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

Jack Goody

#Imagination Quotes #Sound Quotes #Leap Quotes

“Have faith in yourself and in the future.”
“Everyone you see is you in a different time & space.”
“The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but thatâ€™s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.”

Source : "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, en.wikisource.org. September 21, 1897.
“We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.”
“Art is what separates us from the animals.”
“A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.”
“That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.”
“I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.”

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