Re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Xy--literary allusions (OT)

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Michael wrote:
> Ah, Harry. I'm not sure he said it, but if he did Cicero would be proud of
> you: Vox audit perit litera scripta manet ("The spoken word never stays;
> the written world never perishes," [a liberal translation, I think].)

Thanks. Here's my literary allusion:
"If you cannot write something down clearly and objectively, then you do
not really know it. Any vagueness or indecision on any fundamental aspect
of your article will be disastrous. That which you cannot name you know
only approximately."
--Ayn Rand, _The Art of Non-Fiction_ (ironically enough, this is from an
edited transcription of a course she gave to about a dozen aspiring
non-fiction writers in her apartment in NYC; I attended it.)



Harry Binswanger
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