7. There are other signs than number 16 which function in a similar way, to tell where sequences of glyphs (and also the story they tell) are reaching 'cardinal points'. One example is to reverse the normal orientation of a glyph:
The normal orientation of a glyph (when it is not left-right symmetric) is with its 'face' towards right. Time flows along with the text, and the events unfold from left to right, and it is only natural for the glyphs to 'look ahead'. The reversed 'persons', those which are looking back, can be imagined to have no future, as if they were old people. This statement of mine is, though, just a help to remember what the sign of reversal means, viz. to show where the described events are ending. If not a full stop, then at least a comma. |
