Artspeaking topic
Tell a story plainly and it is forgotten; tell it in meter and rhyme and it survives for centuries. Homer's epics were passed on from memory before writing existed, because rhythm carries memory. Why does the brain keep the musical phrase and lose the dry fact?
— oral tradition and the mnemonic power of rhythm
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