The banality of writing
You and I know how to write because others wrote before us. Westerns thus go back to the Romans, and the Romans to the Greeks, and so on to the very beginning of writing itself, which was not in Europe, but in ancient Sumer.
The Romans lived in a highly literate society, but there was an important distinction between those who knew how to read and write,…
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