- spend years learning Chinese - spend some more years learning to read inscriptions on cauldrons - read inscriptions on cauldrons - they say “this is my cauldron”

This is not really fair to paleographer comrades: sometimes they say “this is my cauldron, thanks king”

I remember my mom buying a rune bracelet one time thinking it said something meaningful and it just said “elder futhark” in elder futhark

the universal human impulse

This JUST happened on Strange New World

throughout all time and space humans have had the same impulse as a bored low level employee with a labelmaker

My fave is the runic graffiti at Maeshowe. It's positioned taller than a person, unusually high. It says "This is really high."