Jack Goody Quotes

• The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.

  Jack Goody

  Imagination, Sound, Late

  Jack Goody (1975). “Literacy in Traditional Societies”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

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