“The idea of an inventive stroke of genius is consequently a complete myth.”— Emevwo Biakolo, jstor.org
“It has become a historical commonplace that we owe the alphabet to the Greeks. What is not clear is what we really mean by this. If this implies that the Greeks invented the alphabet, this runs counter to all available knowledge of the history of writing… There is no question at all that the Greeks…”— Emevwo Biakolo, jstor.orgTagged: Alphabet, Written Culture
“How can it be said that sound is oriented to time merely because it cannot be arrested in time? Is not the contrary equally true, namely, that sound is not oriented to time very reason that time cannot capture it, that it too quickly progress through it?”— Emevwo Biakolo, jstor.orgTagged: Time