![]() ![]() Copies made of more durable materials inevitably fail to capture all the subtleties of the writer’s voice, and are thus shunned. Because the act of reading requires physical contact with the soft, malleable surface, each time a text is read, it is also damaged and some aspects of the original irretrievably lost. ![]() For the Allatians, reading is literally hearing the voice of the past.īut there is a cost to the beauty of the Allatian book. A speech sounds like a speech, a lament a lament, and a story re-creates perfectly the teller’s breathless excitement. It is simultaneously a score and a recording. Unlike books written in alphabets, syllabaries, or logograms, an Allatian book captures not only words, but also the writer’s tone, voice, inflection, emphasis, intonation, rhythm. “The Allatians believe that they have a writing system superior to all others. ![]()
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