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Ah, so that's what all those aeroplanes going over in formation were for, whilst I was walking back from shul yesterday. (Did anybody else spot it?)

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Their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England.

—Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels

If you thought boustrophedonic writing (alternating lines left to right, then right to left) was strange, wrap your brain around this, which I encountered by chance in Jastrow: גּוּנְדְּלִית, writing in spiral form. (See p. 233 of Jastrow for an explanation and diagram.)