

1.4 Other Origins of Writing and Other Scripts
Sep 2, 2020
24:59
“When signs are written with care they attest to an interest in proclamation and durability; when they are cursive they show that a society was familiar with writing. Then they are laid out without separations the remind us that our modern page layouts are recent acquisitions. When they are written on scrolls the text unfolds like a film.”
-Henri-Jean Martin (1994)
“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space."
-Abraham Lincoln
Sources and discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/il17l5/14_other_origins_of_writing_and_other_scripts/?