It was on the "table" (or tab-cosmos) since last week. Finally, I got to consume it, and thereafter digest it and expel something derived - from als (ich bist das) was ich isst - which is logged here.
Shakespeare, Newton and meself had something in common this afternoon.
I got to write (literally) much like they did in their times, a few hundred years back - the process, that is, not the content. The three of us have now experienced writing with the same instrument. For the former two, the instrument would be the default instrument of writing; for the latter, the instrument happened out of curiosity arising in an anti-zeitgeist phase of life. Though its use felt laborious, the Quill Pen is gonna linger in my project lists.
It was easier to execute than to have learnt about. The learning that happened went beyond the foundational/historical perspective, and into its design. Thereafter, a real quill pen happened, fashioned from an Eagle/Kite flight feather (one among the lot I collected through roaming Punjab). Then another one, fashioned from a porcupine quill (thanks, Hystrix Indica, for being out there in nearby forests). Then knol gain on making glue-based inks that are effective with such pens (regular pens aka fountain pens clog up with these old world inks), something that would be put into practice later. The bigger the bird, the more fancy the pen that could be fashioned. Ostriches and Peacocks quills already exist.
Here are a coupla useful blogs which will seem as tedious, but are an easy read
http://www.flick.com/~liralen/quills/quills.html
http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/tools/quill.htm
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-real-feather-writing-quill/
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The above image is that of a Sea Pen, which - I Guess - got its name from the original instrument, quill pens for its obvious reason of visual similarity.
Sea Pens are diverse and delicate underwater animals, and as their name suggests, they can look like old style writing pens. They have hard, internal skeletons, and few of them can even glow in the dark, which is how some colorful Sea Pens decorate the Ocean floor (see pictures in Image Gallery).</additionally>
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