The ancient Greek orator Demosthenes boiled rhetoric down to a single principle: only three things count in oratory — delivery, delivery, and again: delivery. Molon drilled this into Cicero by forcing him to declaim against the crashing sea from 80 yards out, training projection that could cut through the murmur of three thousand Romans. The lesson cuts against our content-obsessed culture: in performance, how you carry an argument often determines its fate more than what the argument is.
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