An image from Shady Characters Papyrus cutting schematic This modified version of a CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported image by Wikimedia Commons user “Aethralis” is published in The Book: A Cover to Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time (W. W. Norton, 2016). View the original at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papyrus_sheet.svg.