he's onto something but that 'something' is just walter ong's orality and literacy, so read that instead. but he's still got a way with words that's pretty nice to experience firsthand, especially when he's talking about looking at a spiderweb while meditating under a waterfall. we just used to do that you know. a long time before passportbros existed. we used to go out to papua new guinea and ask a scared-looking shaman to 'teach us his secrets...' so quaint in retrospect