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[haptalaon]

I'm trying to learn a section of Beowulf at the moment,and its making me think of the Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains by Carr, which actually starts by talking about what the invention of books and clocks did to our brains. Interesting. But now I'm wondering that perhaps, the ability to learn - not just one poem, but hundreds as the ancient storytellers did, is a facility we have lost through under-use...like, and I'm learning it by sort of visualising the written words in my head, but is that wrong, and should I be focusing on....the physical motions of my tongue and lips and teeth and what that feels like, the way you would learn a dance, or a song, as a series of sounds rather than a series of representational symbols.