Like it's some leftist rebus that he was creating.

仿佛那是他精心构思的一个左翼谜题。

There's other examples I'm sure of like a rebus where there's pictorial elements that are arranged in a way to make something like Paul Rand's IBM logo design.

我确信还有其他例子，比如字谜游戏，其中图画元素以某种方式排列，形成像保罗·兰德IBM设计的标志那样的作品。

It may be that all those who invented writing independently relied on the rebus (though Mayan shows scant clear evidence of it).

所有独立发明文字的都依赖于字谜（尽管玛雅没有提明确的证据）。

Linguists term this decisive innovation, which also underlies puns today, the rebus principle.

语言学家将这一决定性的创画画原则，它也是当今双关语的基础。

But a few souls stumbled on the rebus principle, sketching either a pit in the ground or a stick-man with an arrow pointing to his armpit.

但是一些灵魂偶然发现了画谜原则，在地上画了一个坑或者画了一个箭头指向腋窝的火柴。

Logograms for abstract words were often derived by the rebus principle.

抽象词的语标通常是根据画谜原理得出的。

But at some point—the Sumerians of the third millennium bc are usually awarded first prize, though Ms Ferrara makes a case for Egypt—people stumbled on the " rebus principle" .

但在某个时候——公元前三千年的苏美尔通常会获得一等奖，尽管费拉拉女士埃及做了个例子——们无意中发现了“字谜原则” 。

But the rebus remains the core of the story, bootstrapping societies from complete ignorance of the very idea of writing to lives that cannot be imagined without it.

但画谜仍然是故事的核心，引导社会从对写作理念的完全无知走向没有它就无法想象的生活。