I hope that Duff isn’t ill or has been arrested for printing something too juicy for the alphabet agencies, or that he has been shut down by a law suit or office politics. I also wish Ed Harris would appear more often. I like him a lot. In Duff’s absence there is a noticeable...
000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet(字母表)...
Today they can be found from the Canary Islands to Egypt, from the Mediterranean to Nigeria. The Berbers are united by a common language and alphabet (tifinagh), by their art and a system of common thought which for centuries has resisted all outside change. Seeking refuge in the mountains...