And it became common to reject any ancient story that wasn't really nailed down very, very firmly by some device.

越来越多的人开始不相信那些远古的故事,因为它们没有确凿的证据和可靠的说法

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So we have to come up--we mortals-- have to come up with some other device, and our device to remember things is to try to write it down because my premise here is, if you can write music down clearly you are hearing it, clearly, and you would have a better chance of remembering it if you could write it down.

因此我们普通人,必须开发出,不得不开发出一些其它的方法,而我们用来记忆的方法,就是试着写下来,它的前提是,如果你可以将听到的音乐清楚地写下来,很清楚,那么你就更有可能,记住它,前提是你能写下它

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