Robert Frost has a character (Dick) expound on "Boustrophedon" to another farmhand (Pike) in "From Plane to Plane:"
“I wouldn’t hoe both ways for anybody!”
“And right you are. You do the way we do
In reading, don’t you Bill?—at every line end
Pick up your eyes and carry them back idle
Across the page to where we started from.
The other way of reading back and forth,
Known as boustrophedon, was found too awkward.”
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Aaron Poochigian
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