Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.
Interpretation
The act of printing gives a finality to written texts, indicating they are complete.
Walter J. Ong emphasizes the role of print in creating a sense of permanence and closure in literature. Unlike oral traditions where stories evolve and change, printed texts are fixed, conveying the idea that what is written has reached a definitive state, accruing meaning and authority in its final form.
In practice
A writer might use this quote during a book launch to highlight the importance of their printed work.
Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other single invention writing has transformed human consciousness.
Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.
Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved.
The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
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