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...instance, Higbie is interested in how exactly stories of the war with Troy were composed, a subject few others study with her particular focus. "As best we understand it at the moment," says Higbie, "these are poets who wrote without pencil and paper, in a world that wasn't so intensely literate as ours...
...test. Early in the morning, she falls asleep and wakes up 45 minutes into the test. She runs into the hallway in her pajamas to find her proctor. The door locks behind her. The Harvard police come to open the door. But they don't have a number two pencil...
...mainstream of Guercino's graphic work was his studies for commissions. He worked in many media -- chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil -- but his favorite was pen and ink wash, from which he produced brilliant summaries of movement, light and shade. The trace of the pen twists and flourishes, now with a liquid agitation, now in sheaves of parallel hatching as tense as wires. Nodes of darkness in a head or down the flank of a torso link up across the whiteness of the paper, and the fearlessness of tonal range attests to Guercino's mastery. He could work passages of light...
...back with red pencil on top thatsaid, "This is shit,'" says Wilson. "That is, youknow, the shortest from of literary criticism...
...theater ticket, the meager index of an artist's social life, held by a crisscrossed square of pink tape to an unvarnished pine board. Everything is actual size, and the flatness of the board corresponds to the flatness of the painting, so that the illusion is nearly absolute. The pencil and chalk marks on the board look just like pencil and chalk, every grain line in the cheap wood and fiber in a torn paper edge is there, and the play of the yellow and blue rectangles and envelopes against the square of tape has the lovely spareness...