30-12-2015, 03:34 PM
That is a very interesting idea and one that deserves to be more closely examined. I shall dedicate a bit more time to this later on.
OTTOMH, your "coverage" idea would link the successive glyphs with the gallows, thus clearly indicating a "glyph group" within a word.
Possibilities:
OTTOMH, your "coverage" idea would link the successive glyphs with the gallows, thus clearly indicating a "glyph group" within a word.
Possibilities:
- Reference markers (Pelling's book reference idea?) where the gallows is the book, the underlying glyphs the marker (and the rest of the uncovered word talking about the purpose of the marker)
- Some sort of artificial language marker where the gallows indicates say, tense or grammatical function out of tune with the rest of the sentence, and the underlying glyphs the changed glyphs.
- It could be something mad to our eyes, like "holy words", or pronouns.
- etc