"Henry preferred the latter. He liked the personal art of each writer's handwriting, some nearly robotic in appearance and ultra-legible, others jagged scrawls that nearly defined comprehension. It always astonished him how twenty-six highly conventionalized glyphs could find such varied expressoin once a living hand set to write them down. Was it Gertrude Stein who said language was alaphabet in disorder?"
This book had potential, but it just lacked something.
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