# Horn and Communication *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Sep 2010* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Brian Lovely *22 Sep 2010, 14:07* Regarding the "Names and the Whorl" thread. I'm pretty sure someone else has noted this, except, perhaps, for the Smoothbone and trumpet parts: Horn is a papermaker who writes a book about Silk 'trumpeting' his achievements (horn as megaphone). Hide can be made into parchment (admittedly a paper substitute, but a still a support for writing), and horn, hide, and hoof can all be boiled into glue. The glue can be combined with pigment to make ink. Smoothbone sounds kind of like a pen handle. Brian Lovely brian at studiobl.com ---