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From 'A Primer for Forgetting' by Lewis Hyde (https://worldcat.org/en/title/1222828730), page 3:
> Many years ago, reading about the old oral cultures where wisdom and history lived not in boks but on the tongue. I found my curiosity aroused by one brief remark. "Oral societies," I read, keep themselves "in equilibrium ... by sloughing off memories which no longer have present relevance."