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sdenton4last Sunday at 9:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

My favorite Samuel Delany story is about a woman in a village who invents writing, and teaches it to all the children. She makes a rule that you're never allowed to write down people's names, as it will inevitably lead to keeping records comparing people, and thus leading to strife...


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booleandilemmalast Monday at 5:24 AM

There's a good Ted Chiang story about how writing conflicts with a village's tradition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...

le-marklast Sunday at 11:31 PM

I haven’t read that one, do you know of a collection that has it?

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