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all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

Hush!

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“When he read,” said Augustine, “his eyes scanned the page and his heart sought out the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still. Anyone could approach him freely and guests were not commonly announced, so that often, when we came to visit him, we found him reading like this in silence, for he never read aloud.” … this method of reading, this silent perusing of the page, was in [the 3rd Century] something out of the ordinary … not until the tenth century does this manner of reading become usual in the West … at about the same time, the Irish scribes, celebrated throughout the Christian world for their skill, began isolating not only parts of speech but also the grammatical constituents within a sentence, and introduced many of the punctuation marks we use today.

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