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Remember that poetry ms were read from rather than read because even most of
the high nobility were illiterate. That being the case, its appearance on
the page was rather less important.[MW]
<snip>
An argument for the persistence of parsing by sound isn't an argument
against the effects of different visual orderings, then and subsequently,
upon readers.
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we read what's written for voice and ear differently. [MW]
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Ditto. And we choose.
But enough. Bolts shot; foxes rampant, I think.
CW
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