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.
To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
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