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Boustrophedon

Boustrophedon is an animal today considered mythical in the World of the Cities, and that may have inspired the creation of gargoyles in ours 1). Curiously, in the Lighted World this term refers to an ancient writing mode, where each line was laid in a direction opposite to the previous one, “like the furrows of a plow”.