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Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

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Walter J. Ong
Age: 102 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 30
Died: 2015
Died: August 12
Anthropologist
Catholic Priest
Historian
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
University Teacher
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Walter Jackson Ong
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