
Writing is something we all take for granted, but it’s worth noting that there’s something magical about it. Silvia Ferarra put it this way in her book The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts:
Writing is sound made visible and tangible, and as such it interacts intimately with our sens…
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