pynchon-l-digest V2 #1831

[David Morris]

Vaginal human history really supercedes...

--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> >
> > "jbor":
> > >Are you saying that human language(s) and culture(s) preceded human
> > >history???!
> >
> >
> > See Lascaux and other prehistoric paintings, please. Obviously human
> > language development comes before writing, the watershed event that
> > marks the beginning of history. Song, dance, painting, sculpture all
> > predate written history. A number of credible researchers and
> > thinkers also suggest that language and culture begin to evolve prior
> > to the emergence of the human being.
> > [snip]
> >
> 
> A very ancient binary opposition is between the (original, God-given) word
> and the (human, only diverted) script.
> Don't forget that oral histories are the basics of the first "written"
> stories.
> Oral human history precedes written human history.

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