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Google and a God Named Theuth

From Michael Harris’s The End of Absence: In Plato’s Phaedrus, we hear Socrates describing how a king from Egypt called Thamus informed the god Theuth that the phonetic alphabet was not so great a gift. The god was particularly chuffed … Continue reading

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