All of our days should be memorable

How does one go about thinking memorable thoughts? Perhaps we are all just so word drunk that we can't remember things anymore; now we have to write everything down to know it the next day. From the book Orality and Literacy, Professor Sexson defined these words for us:

• Chirography - Writing - the world of writing
• Typography - Typing - the world of typing
• Epistolary - Letters

Letter, telephones, e-mail...all these are technologies. The new technologies are disparaged by the current generation until they are internalized. What have we internalized in our generation?

• I think we have definitly internalized things like e-mail, telephones, internet, and printing. Other things that I think we accept without much thought are television, radio, newspapers, and magazines.

Luddism - a dislike of technology.
I think everyone knows a Luddite or two, who opposes new technologies, although they may embrace others that they have already internalized.

Secondary orality - This is where a person may themselves be illiterate, but they live in a society that has become completely literate.

Two books that Professor Sexson passed out in class were Avatars of the Word by James O'Donnell and ABC: The Alphabetizing of the Popular Mind by Ivan Illich and Barry Sanders. Professor Sexson said that these books were important liturature for orality.

A parting thought: All of our days should be memorable. We should remember each day as we rember the day which history forced upon us to remember.

Our task is to rebuild our own cabins in our minds. My cabin is my parents' home in Eastern Montana. It is the second house I grew up in. The first house I don't remember very well, as I was about 7 or 8 when we moved.

A word that is not spoken is no word at all. So, now you have to read this blog aloud, or it won't even exist!