2.6 Helping an ideocalligraph beginner

Ideocalligraphy is a written visual language, allied to inner speech. Although it can never be spoken or fittingly translated, its contents, once assimilated, may well prompt comment or lively discussion. To help someone unfamiliar with ideocalligraphs and yet interested in gathering in their meaning, the ideocalligrapher should always be ready to offer a free 'translation' - pointing out perhaps some of the allusions and inferences implied by the structure, time dimension and meaning flow. He could even make a pencil or ball-point copy for the inquirer to take away, giving him the chance to 'walk into it' and re-interpret it, in his own time, undisturbed.