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I am told that *An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting Paperback* is now
available. I hope to see it soon. Actually it may have been around some
weeks but they just got round to telling the contributors. So it goes. *An
Anthology of Asemic Handwriting Paperback *by Michael Jacobson (Editor),
Tim Gaze (Editor) (ISBN: 9789081709170) Here is a blurb with which I do not
entirely agree.
"An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to
collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility.
Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet
remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as
lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet.
But despite these observations, asemic writing is not everything: it is
just an essential component, a newborn supernova dropped from a
calligrapher's hand. Asemic writing is simultaneously communicating with
the past and the future of writing, from the earliest undeciphered writing
systems to the xenolinguistics of the stars; it follows a peregrination
from the preliterate, beyond the verbal, finally ending in a postliterate
condition in which visual language has superseded words."
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