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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
I read in the facinating New Yorker article I've referenced about oral histories that these bards they've found in India and the Balkans, who can carry around in their heads and recite the entire text of Bible-length and longer works, lose their powers of memorization if they become literate.
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Very interesting. Well, that would help explain how Homer's works survived so long in oral form in spite of their great length.