This is a question:
It looks like a set of words in a column: manuscript, oratory, scholar[l]y ap[aratus].
Position is important. The question: how does the practice of oratory reflect upon manuscript culture to produce the scholarly or critical apparatus? What is implied in the reading top to bottom is the operation “followed by” and what is generated by this group is a challenge to a historiography of rupture where oral cultures are disrupted by the coming of writing — all accomplished with a memorable trio.
And so for day 1824
11.12.2011