On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:56:14AM +0530, Alok Singh wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:52 PM Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > > > BTW, is there (or was there) a similar concept in other > > cultures/civilisations? > > > Sort of tangential but there is an oral tradition called ಹೆಳುವವರು > (heLuvavaru) who are these wandering folk (I think they were shepherds) who > go from house to house, listening to their stories and would then repeat > the memorable ones, long after the participants had passed. This is from > the Davangere region of Karnataka.
This is interesting. it reminds me of Flynn Collective from Charles Stross' "Accellerando". -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
