Little Ralph, the bearer of a terrifyingly powerful intelligence with a coefficient of 475, does not accept speech for philosophical and aesthetic reasons. In addition, by the age of 4, he is kidnapped by: 1. a mentally unstable psychiatrist who wants to open his brain; 2. a Pentagon colonel who wants to turn him into the ultimate spy machine; 3. Mexican couple dreaming of their own child; 4. a Catholic priest seeking to exorcise his demons. And all this is just the beginning of a happy childhood... A masterpiece of the art of linguistics is Percival Everett’s novel “Glyph.”