In class today, I started considering how these musey-rooms are actually supposed to operate. Before class I was reading Ong and tried to think of what really qualified the differentiation between literature and orality. I say qualified at not quantified because as the quantification is the record itself. The record becomes not just a series of scratches or symbols, but it is an interpretable message not requisite of a human being to induce relatability. However, literature seems to fall short as a genuine form of communication for it lack in portraying the human condition. There is no sarcasm in text messaging. And, equally a frustrating, similar texts cannot possible encapsilate the subtle nuance of inflection. What literate culture does provide is a record, for however accurate, of events, theories, names, dates and other impersonal data. Since the written word is never present situation but rather relative past, the oral tradition lies at the core of the human experience. Therefore, good literature today might be generally classified as material that evokes an emotional response in the reader.
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