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See Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Stoiy and Science of
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H. G. Wells, World Brain (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1938), vii.
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Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (New York: Routledge, 2002),
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Wolf, Proust and the Squid, 36.
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Wolf, Proust and the Squid, 29.
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Ibid., 34.
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Ibid., 60-65.
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Quotations from Phaedrus are taken from the popular translations by
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Eric A. Havelock, Preface to Plato (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
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