List of Ong Quotes Chapter 6

My List of Important Quotes from Ong Chapter 6

1. Oral cultures... use stories of human action to store, organize, and communicate much of what they know (137)
2. It hardly does justice to oral composition it describe it as varying from an organization it does not know and cannot conceive of (140)
3. If we  take the climactic linear plot as the paradigm of plot, the epic has no plot (141)
4. The singer is remembering in a curiously public way - remembering not a memorized text for there is no such thing, nor any verbatim succession of words, but the themes and formulas he has heard other singers sing (142)
5. The bard is original and creative on rather different grounds from those of the writer (143)
6. "Though inspiration continues to derive from unconscious sources, the writer can subject the unconscious inspiration to far greater conscious control than the oral narrator (144-145)
7. The very reflectiveness of writing...encourages growth of consciousness out of the unconscious (147)
8. It would appear that the development of modern depth psychology parallel the development of the character in drama and the novel, both depending on the inward turning of the psyche produced by writing and intensified by print (151)

Chapter 7 list to be coming shortly...