Friday, January 23, 2009

Vocabulary

esoteric: keep it on the inside

Jesuit: Roman Catholic priest

ephemeral: short-lived, a short time

chirographic: writing

typographic: typing

epistle: letter

primary orality: no writing anywhere

secondary orality: literate society even if a person is illiterate

Polymaths: people who know a little bit of everything

luddism: hatred or strong dislike of technology; Luddites: haters of technology

para taxis: constructing sentences together using and, and, and, and, and and

neoplatonism: mysticism

anamnesis: memory, everything recollected

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