... the same neatness as of a hospital bed, you at the desk curled carefully at the white sheets, neverthemore, it is somehow you in those letters, from that metropolis where there is only one face and you have it for the moment, and even the sense of the color of the yes eyes is enough for me.

The Meroic Script indigenized the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and invented an alphabet of 23 letters, containing details of correspondence between the central government and provinces, trade and administrative matters.

If you haven't got a penny, / A ha'penny will do, / If you haven't got a ha'penny, / Then God bless you.

They ripped off the whole idea from their competitors.