Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Killing Mnemosyne - 2 views
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Isidore, the bishop of Seville, remarked how reading “the sayings” of thinkers in books “render[ed] their escape from memory less easy.”
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Shakespeare has Hamlet call his memory “the book and volume of my brain.”
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Books provide a supplement to memory, but they also, as Eco puts it, “challenge and improve memory; they do not narcotize it.”
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