As we descend into an authoritarian chapter of American royal oligarchy and fascism, the wisdom of Brecht's line in his play "The Life of Galileo" comes to mind: Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Democracy works when sides with different views come together, typically somewhere in the middle. The ancient
boustrophedonic style of writing where the first line is written from left to right and the second line from right to left and so on therefore seemed a perfect typographic device to use for this book. The old Greek term
boudestrophon essential means that the writing turns the same way as the ox when plowing the field.
There is another twist here: Looking straight at the words they are hard to make out and seem messy, (just like a pluralistic system), but when the pages are flattened and looked at from a sharp angle, foreshortened as it were, the text becomes easily legible revealing itself in the middle of the lines.