Theologically speaking, logos is the original sin, the eating of the fruit of knowledge, the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Historically speaking, logos is the growth of the literary revolution, the birth of the written tradition out of the oral tradition. From any point of view, logos (literally) is a dead letter. “Knowledge,” wrote e. e. cummings, “is a polite word for / dead but not buried imagination.” He was talking about logos.
