[PER] и вместе им не сойтись...

[congeries]

"...but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England". - Jonathan Swift, A Voyage to Lilliput