"Human communication is never one-way. Always, it not only calls for response but is shaped in its very form and content by anticipated response. ... I have to be somehow inside the mind of the other in advance ...and he or she must be inside my mind. To formulate anything I must have another person or other persons already 'in mind'. This is the paradox of human communication. Communication is intersubjective."
— Walter J. Ong, "Some Theories" in Orality and Literacy [first 1982] (Routledge 2012) p173.
— Walter J. Ong, "Some Theories" in Orality and Literacy [first 1982] (Routledge 2012) p173.
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