Inspiration point - scribbled couplet

By Ray Schaufeld

Thu, 07 Apr 2022
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I love Lazlo Biro cuz I'm a wuss

But I could handle a stylus on papyrus

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Cleverly composed couplet! I'm not sure I could handle the old way, all so easy with our biros! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Cheers Rhiannon.

I would need to learn the technique from someone with experience first. 

Does the British Museum ever run ancient writing workshops?

I am sure that if I used a slower and more stylised form of script it would improve the quality of my work. If I needed to write slowly and carefully I would think long and hard as I formed every word at every stage of my inspiration.

When I get a bit of 'spare money' I shall buy myself a fountain pen and a bottle or two of bright ink. Writing inks used to be avaible in mauve and turquoise. I shall then try to write a good Italic script.

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Our word Style stems from Stylus

We all have our own writing style.

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I had to read this a few times to get the sense out of it as the sounds are such fun! Lazlo Biro is the most brilliant name :0) And how you have the i/y sounds in the middle of each line from Biro and stylus is so clever. It is very, very satisfying to read

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Just remembered

The Romans wrote with stylus on WAX tablets

The Egyptias wrote with feathered pen and ink made from cuttlefish secretions on Papyrus.

My notion of handling stylus on papyrus would have produced ahem 'a scratchy pig's ear.'

However the French call a Biro 'le stylo'

xxx rach