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Concept:	Spiral Text
Designer:	Brinkley Messick
Year:	1993
Source:	The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination in a Muslim Society
Description:	Given a blank page, a Yemeni writer of the period commenced far down on the page and indented radically toward the center. Since Arabic is written right to left, this meant roughly within the lower left quadrant. When the bottom was reached before the writing was finished, the spiral effect came into play. In short texts, completed at or before the bottom edge, there was no spiral, but a very wide margin remained to the right and across the top of the page. When the text continued, however, writer and writing turned the corner and proceeded, nearly upside-down in relation to the initial lines, back up the right side of the page. Continuing on, the writing might pivot again, adjusting direction so as to arc diagonally through the upper right quadrant to a finish in the upper left.