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1 Notes|      poetry was spontaneous and oral -- a fair amount of metrical
2 Notes| inappropriate for analyzing the oral culture in which the Buddha
3 Notes|       of an allegiance to their oral origins. ~Oral prose and
4 Notes|         to their oral origins. ~Oral prose and poetry are very
5 Notes|      the expectations placed on oral transmission between speakers
6 Notes|      there are situations in an oral culture where either immediate
7 Notes|        alive to both aspects of oral communication, and that
8 Notes|        it did not matter. In an oral culture, where a saying
9 Notes|      advantages of written over oral transmission are obvious: