"Amun, help your father with—" Eshmun freezes mid-sentence as he catches his son in the most abhorrent of acts. "What are you doing, Amun?"
"Nothing," Amun quickly hides a scroll behind his back.
"Are you," Eshmun exhales loudly, "reading?!"
"It's not what it looks like," Amun pleads.
"My son is literate?" Eshmun laments theatrically. "Is there nothing more evil and corrupt than reading?"
"Father, reading is not all bad!"
"All readers do is sit around all day getting sick and fat as they consume books filled with nothing but sex and violence. What is wrong with oral tradition, I ask you?"
And then the oral storytellers inject their stories with long lectures about how evil it is to write stories down, because then just ANYONE could read them and they wouldn't have to go to the storyteller
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