Horn and Communication

Brian Lovely · 22 Sep 2010, 14:07 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: brian at studiobl.com (Brian Lovely)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:07:49 -0400
Subject: (urth) Horn and Communication
Message-ID: <5B883AFE-F2BA-4543-87D8-4B3C7041764A at studiobl.com>

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

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