Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

只有口头文化不受死知识和死事实的阻碍。另一方面，图书馆里到处都是。

-- Huston Smith 休斯顿·史密斯