Some examples of this word in literature:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cEvery writer is the\u00a0amanuensis<\/strong>\u00a0to their characters\u201d
\n\u2014 Lucy Coats<\/p>\n\u201cI first noticed this as a child: too much happiness bored me. If I went for a walk on a sunny morning and began to experience an increasing sense of sheer joy, there came a point at which I grew tired of it and deliberately brought my mind back down to earth. Thinking about this later I always found it difficult to understand why I wanted that happiness to come to an end. Now the solution is obvious. When we experience a sudden insight we want to grasp it, to turn it into words. But the left brain is like an\u00a0amanuensis<\/strong>\u00a0who has to take everything down in longhand. If the intuitions come too fast he wants to shout, \u2018Slow down, slow down!\u2019 And if the speaker refuses to slow down he throws down his pen in disgust.\u201d
\n\u2014 Colin Wilson (Beyond the Occult: Twenty Years\u2019 Research into the Paranormal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most famous amanuensis in Indian mythology is Lord Ganesh, the scribe who wrote the Ramayana to Vyasa\u2019s dictation.\u00a0 The word originally comes from the Latin word for slave or within arm\u2019s reach. Tertius was the scribe who composed the Book of Romans to Apostle Paul\u2019s directive. 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