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As walking, talking, gesticulating creatures, human beings generate lines wherever they go. This book explore the production and significance of lines. It investigates: speech and song in the cultures of Papua New Guinea, the Navaho and Meso America paths, trails and maps drawing, writing and calligraphy, and the modern and postmodern world.