Which sentence describes a disadvantage of speaking? a. it takes time to organize your thoughts and words. b. you get immediate feedback from your audience. c. the audience isn't able to ask you any questions. d. the words and ideas are short-lived and disappear quickly.

The answer is D. The words and ideas are short-lived and disappear quickly.

Jacques Derrida, in some famous passages, particularly in Of Grammatology, makes a compelling argument about the fact that thought, therefore philosophy, was only able to be born once writing came to be. Writing can assure the permanence of what is no longer present, a thought, an idea, an impression, even after the author has long disappeared. Speaking, on the other hand, has a vivid though short lived influence on the mind, and since speaking is ephemeral, so are the ideas and the words that are spoken.

“thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.”

“hath taught me to set in trifles no store,”

“me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.”

part a.   = c.)

part b. = a.)

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