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> 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).

Re:The Limits of Language on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:39PM (#10166759)
An interpretation of the limits of language aided by Finnegans Wake:

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