as an educated man , a literary fellow no less , you must know that before such a distinctively human activity as writing was , before the implementscomputers , word processors , typewriters , pencils , pens , quills , chisels , paper , screens , papyrus , barkexisted as such , stories were chanted , sung , and told by bards , skalds , scops , gleeman , jongleurs , troubadours , prophets .