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Is not to read, as a form of non-extinction, a continuation of nobody ever hearing?

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i think it could well be. im not sure weil's theory of reading plots onto what the above says. it probably breaks at that point? both human reading and nonreading, and nonhuman reading and nonreading, look impossible...at something like this point...

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Looks impossible. But linking speech to the soul as a form of "transcendence"... or in Aristotle's words "Man cannot be a subject of instruction otherwise than through the ear". One must be careful not to dismiss born-deaf people.

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not bout subjective capacity. genius unreads most of all? (perhaps) lets say there is an excess of rigor

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