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...also the making of the instruments with which to make them. In the 15th century one did not walk into a shop and buy a pencil. One had to make the silverpoint or the twig of charcoal. One had to cut the pen and shape its nib from a quill. All of this was wound in with the technique of drawing and helped to determine its intensity. That is one of the reasons why small drawings (and most of Leonardo's drawings were small, in some cases hardly more than thumbnail sketches) can be so involuntarily revealing, just like handwriting...
...When you get to your seat in this beautiful courtroom, there is a handmade goose quill pen waiting for you at your seat. Then the clerk comes out and announces the Justices, who come in through a velvet curtain. The courtroom was packed; the pressroom was packed. Every seat was filled...
...culture in her daily life. Three years ago she began cultivating a garden with a tribal elder to replicate the ancient crops that Lewis and Clark once enjoyed. "You can't buy Mandan blue flour corn in the grocery store," she says. She is taking a course in porcupine-quill embroidery. And her teenage daughters are studying the Hidatsa language in school. "Our tribes have survived catastrophic events in the past 200 years," she says. "But if we grieve forever, we will never move forward...
...area the size of a toddler's crib, where thousands of individual samples of genetic material sit in tiny wells etched into plastic plates, each one identified by a unique bar code. One by one, Zeus searches for a particular code, dips into the corresponding well with a fine, quill-like probe and picks up a minuscule droplet of liquid...
...that bore the image and form of the characters in the books - an old idea called "licensing" that "Peanuts" products would turn into a global phenomenon, bringing in $1 billion a year to United Features and making Schulz richer than any popular artist in the world. USING A CROW-QUILL PEN DIPPED in ink, Schulz drew every day through the next three decades. He always worked alone, without a team of assistants. For a self-doubting perfectionist - Schulz referred to himself as a fanatic - the strip cartoon was an ideal form: the cartoonist's relationship to the world is self...