Read the travelogues of the last-but-one century and those older, and the strange and beautiful right-to-left Illitan calligraphy-and its jarring phonetics-is constantly remarked on. At some point everyone has heard Sterne, from his travelogue: “In the Land of Alphabets /Arabic/ caught /Dame Sanskrit’s/ eye (drunk he was despite Muhamed’s
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