Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08593_Field_TCGG T358.txt

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     In an unpublished master’s thesis (32) John H.
Harrington observes that in the early Christian centuries “Both
the book, and the written word were identified with the
message they carried. They were considered as being magically
potent instruments, especially against the devil and his
snares.” Harrington has many sections that bear on the oral
character of “reading” and on the need for memorization as
this from the rule of Pachomius: “And if he be unwilling to read,
he is to be forced, so that there will never be one in a
monastery who cannot read and memorize portions of Sacred
Scripture.” (p. 34) “Often while travelling two monks would
read to one another, or recite from memory the Book of
Scripture.” (p. 48)