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Entry: Thoreau-ly Original: Henry David Thoreau and the New England Pencil - A87887164
Author: Dmitri Gheorgheni - U1590784

I started to hold this entry for one more day. If you read it, you'll see why.

Full disclosure: I do not particularly like Henry David Thoreau.

But we should give the devil his due, and he DID help the US pencil supply.

Fascinating story!

I knew that Spermaceti wasn't pasta () because I put together the entry on Whales & whaling A13900042 (which you could link to on "sperm whale").

And here's another relevant link: A29321381



GB

I'll do that. It will make an awful joke marginally better.

As it's April Fools Day, I was looking for a bit of trickery worked into this. Apart from the pun in the title I didn't find anything Did I miss it?

I don't think I've got any crits. Although I wouldn't call King Henry VIII 'Good'.

We need an irony smiley, don't we?

Thanks, MVP! And no, no trickery, other than being snarky about a US icon. Most of his admirers haven't tried to read that much of his prose.

I really enjoyed this Entry.

Thanks.

On pencil 'leads', lead actually was used as an alternative to silverpoint prior to discovery of graphite.

Either lead or silver will make a black mark on hard wood or parchment.

Unfortunately, lead is impermanent and eventually will turn white as the lead oxidizes, sometimes in lesscthan a single day.

Silver is permanent, and there are many well preserved silverpoint studies by renaissance artists still in existence.

Obviously, graphite is less expensive than silver.

Yeah, that was a joke.

Silver? True. A4987263

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