afleck's comments

On: The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

[afleck]

> Bards pre-literate-times in Greece purportedly could recite Homer's Odyssey themselves after one hearing.

Epic recitation was probably not fixed until someone wrote it down. Different recitations of the same plot varied (and were expected to).

On: A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire ca. 125 AD

[afleck]

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3922623,49.233182,10z

I believe it's this.

On: The Limits of Language

[afleck]

An interpretation of the limits of language aided by Finnegans Wake:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jul/12/what-ma...