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3680403 No.3680403 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/, I have a simple question. I remember hearing or reading from somewhere a quote that went like this:

"Careful! If you keep writing, you'll stop using your memory!"

It's a play on how new media is often misunderstood. A very similar line is used in "Understanding Comics" although I'm sure McCloud took it from somewhere else. Does anyone know, more or less, where this first came from? Or at least something that can be quoted? Thank you very much in advance.

Pic isn't necessarily related.

>> No.3680411

>>3680403

Plato's Phaedo

he talk bout how we be father to the silly children our words who we can't control once they leave the house after we say them on paper and also we forget like this too and die sad

>> No.3680428

Well there's also the more recent Plato's Pharmacy by Derrida.

>> No.3680431

>>3680411
Awesome. This is the quote I was looking for:

"Is not forgetting, Simmias, just the losing of knowledge?"

Thanks a bunch /lit/.