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“An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics―highly recommended.”―Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (†)―which alternately illuminated and skewered
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“Anabsolutely fascinating blend of history, design,
sociology, and cultural poetics―hihly
recommended.”#8213Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A
charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the
written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail
across the parallel histories of language and typography.
Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger
(†―whch alternately illuminated and skewered
heretical verses of the early Bible―orthe at sign (@),
which languished in obscurity for centuries until rescued by the
Internet, Keith Houston draws on myriad sources to chart the
life and times of these enigmatic squiggles, both exotic (¶
and everyday (&.From the Library of Alexandria to the
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