"I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one."
In our house when I was growing up my mother had a dish she called Hotpot, which in winter was eagerly looked for because it always seemed to come out on those days I struggled from school or work in the dark and the rain. Warmed from the outside by the fire, I was then warmed on the inside by the Hotpot.
The contemporary important writing not of alphabetic type is that in Chinese characters, in which thousands of symbols are used, each representing a word or concept, and Japanese, where each character represents a syllable.