Late.

Found out through George that Walter Ong has died.

When I was just starting out with this humanities computing doctorate idea, one of my advisers-to-be sat me down and provided me with a list of books that I was to read before we could speak to each other about anything. Orality and Literacy was the first among them. Much like Matt, I found myself nodding to what seemed were my own past instincts about literature and other word-based communication suddenly articulated on paper. Ong’s arguments keep making their way back into my own, as starting points for discussion, provocations for thought. I am deeply thankful that he lived and wrote.