Dead People Talk To Us

Yew, that’s a bit creepy. Dead people talk? Stay with me. 

Writing always comes before reading. If no one wrote anything, there’d be nothing to read. 

People throughout history (yeah, history, boring) wrote things down. Before printing presses, they wrote it by hand, using a quill pen and ink.

Wait, what’s a quill pen? A feather from a large bird like a peacock. People sharpened the hard, pointy bit where it stuck into the bird’s body. Of course, the feather wasn’t still attached to the bird. They dipped the point into a pot of ink.

People from history wrote stories, diaries, plays, and laws. Religious people wrote about their religion. Explorers kept a log (diary) of their adventures. Their writings tell us how they lived. If they lived and wrote hundreds of years ago, those people are not around anymore. But the stuff they wrote still talks to us when we read it.

So, dead people can talk to us. See, it's not so creepy.