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I found this fun web page: instructions on how to make a quill pen.
My favorite part is the recipe for ink at the bottom, courtesy of Jane Austen's sister-in-law:
Take 4 ozs of blue gauls [gallic acid, made from oak apples], 2 ozs of green copperas [iron sulphate], 1 1/2 ozs of gum arabic. Break the gauls. The gum and copperas must be beaten in a mortar and put into a pint of strong stale beer; with a pint of small beer. Put in a little refin'd sugar. It must stand in the chimney corner fourteen days and be shaken two or three times a day.
I am thusly inspir'd to create a ridiculous poll.
Poll Are we really better off in the 21st century?The quills would surely be cheaper. And I have to say, the complete lack of intuitiveness in the interface for creating polls here has me leaning heavily towards writing utensils made from feathers.
My favorite part is the recipe for ink at the bottom, courtesy of Jane Austen's sister-in-law:
Take 4 ozs of blue gauls [gallic acid, made from oak apples], 2 ozs of green copperas [iron sulphate], 1 1/2 ozs of gum arabic. Break the gauls. The gum and copperas must be beaten in a mortar and put into a pint of strong stale beer; with a pint of small beer. Put in a little refin'd sugar. It must stand in the chimney corner fourteen days and be shaken two or three times a day.
I am thusly inspir'd to create a ridiculous poll.
Poll Are we really better off in the 21st century?The quills would surely be cheaper. And I have to say, the complete lack of intuitiveness in the interface for creating polls here has me leaning heavily towards writing utensils made from feathers.