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Jan 30, 2018

On Mirtha Dermisache

Dermisache’s letter-ish scripts comprise a sort of ur-language, which may, on occasion, vaguely resemble the sleekly linear letters of Arabic or the regimented cursive of South Asian abugidas—but they follow no grammar or syntax.

The Paris Review