High Masculine Tones

a failure to communicate

3.01.2002

For those of you interested in creating writing systems for your own imaginary civilizations, the Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an indispensible resource. Not merely a handy tool for Tolkien wannabes, it serves as a useful 'aid to explorers of the liminal territory between familiarity and chaos.'

And it's those spots between familiarity and chaos that tend to gum up the works.

A page of type is one of the most abstract pieces of communication I can imagine. Symbols of the most ancient origin can be put together in ways that stimulate they eye, through pattern, and the mind, through thought.
— Warren Chappell, A Short History of the Printed Word

By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters.
— Jorge Luis Borges, 'The Library of Babel' in Labyrinths

posted by Mr. GluSniffer # 6:27 PM

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