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To: cripplecreek
The printing press is definitely one of mankind’s greatest inventions.

Yes, but there's nothing quite like a book written on vellum using blood and horse urine ink.

12 posted on 10/15/2011 9:50:46 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: seowulf; cripplecreek

And there is nothing like hand lettered calligraphy. It’s relaxing and meditative for the person doing it too.


13 posted on 10/15/2011 10:35:20 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: seowulf
"Yes, but there's nothing quite like a book written on vellum using blood and horse urine ink.

I wonder how much a horse piss collector was paid in those days. I also wonder what his wife told her friends that he did for a living.

14 posted on 10/15/2011 10:39:21 AM PDT by blam
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