“One of the abiding problems of explanation is that it splits issues analytically in order to clarify them, and in the process often impoverishes or denatures the issues, depriving them of some of their full and essential depth.”
More from Walter Ong
“Written words are residue. Oral tradition has no such residue or deposit… Though words are…”
“It is perfectly true that neither you nor I can hope to set up a program for activity…”
“The articulate remains always embedded in the inarticulate.”
“Science itself is always incomplete articulation.”