“There is no way to break down into individual articulated items the absolute totality of even one person’s history, much less of the entirety of human existence or of the entire universe—or even of a baseball game.”
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.”