Every technology we have ever invented has promised to change the story forever, and every time the story has simply changed its clothes. This is the long history of the oldest thing we do.

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Prose is the art form that pretends to have no form. That disguise is the trick, and learning to see through it is most of what reading well means.

Poetry is older than writing, and everything people find difficult about it is a fossil of what it was for. Before there were books there were people who had to remember things: genealogies, laws, histories, the route to somewhere, the names of the dead.