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niyad

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Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Jan 17, 2026, 08:15 PM

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For all the criticism of his book, I found Leonard Shlain's "The Alphabet vs The Goddess" which talked about how perception and thinking changed as we changed from symbols and images to linear alphabets rather interesting.

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