In a message dated 3/11/02 7:15:36 PM, rmv1_at_... writes:
<< > From what I understand, until comparatively modern times,
> reading was a generally more tortuous process. You mumbled
> the words as you read them, and usually made more than one
> pass of each passage to figure out its meaning. >>
St. Augustine wrote that it was one of the wondrous things about Saint Ambrose of Milan that he read silently. That suggests that hardly anyone else in the 4th century AD did so.
Jim Chapin
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