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The final narrative ends with the legendary inventor of Chinese characters reflecting on his impoverished mother, whose figure — no longer begging for food — is forever preserved in his logograms.

But once he’s added delicate hind legs, spindly forelegs, and the muscular slopes of rump and neck, Traylor invariably arrives at something with the eerie singularity of a Sumerian logogram.

The second strategy uses so-called logograms, meaning that one written sign stands for a whole word.

You also created some of the early alien logograms, which you inserted into the script and which inspired the ones used in the film.

But the Heptapods’ don’t need to maintain that order when writing down language: because the logograms represent entire concepts, sequence doesn’t matter.