Sheri S. Tepper | A Plague of Angles (extract)

“Like Apes, Abasio. No oral tradition, rejecting literacy as unmanly. It’s a decadent
tongue, Abasio, an impoverished tongue. As vocabulary is reduced, so are the number
of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of
things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience.
Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language, he retrogresses!”

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Amen.