/lit/ - Literature

“…smiles come best from those who weep.”
- Rumi

The western written language is in slow decay. People focus on the content, but the package is completely dismissed. Industrial age transformed the letters into small pieces, simplistic but precise. "A" means "A", it doesn't matter if you can do the strokes well or not. There is much more to language than plain types, a man with knowledge of calligraphy is able to convey meaning within each letter, while a typical writer has to combine them to achieve similar effects.

To say that you can't reach deep into the hearts and mind with calligraphy is just showing how alienated we are from the pictoric aspect of our words. There is no wrong or right, but we chose a path and we need to understand that we made that choice by aknowledging the other routes, not by ignoring them.

http://butdoesitfloat.com/1171/Letters-are-free-entities-They-are-clear-and-cunning-Together-they

http://butdoesitfloat.com/717298/Writing-is-not-a-series-of-strokes-but-space-divided-into

http://butdoesitfloat.com/1842190/Echo-of-the-Word

Worth notice that calligraphy for the arab culture is very important. There are hundreds of books on the subject and how they can convey meaning through complex visual signs that go beyond the type.