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Re: TT-3 Borrowdale graphite (fwd)
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Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:33 PM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re: TT-3 Borrowdale graphite
As you must have noticed, Henry Petroski's *The Pencil* also includes
references to Nabokov:
And Vladimir Nabokov articulated the same idea with a different image: "I
have written--often several times--every word I have ever published. My
pencils outlast their erasures" (50).
In its 1940 catalogue, the Eagle Pencil Company offered its top-of-the-line
Mikado (five cens in its basic style) specially equipped--perhaps for
writers like Nabokov--with an "oversize eraser, big enough to outlast the
pencil" (352).
Best,
Akiko
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D. Barton Johnson
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Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:33 PM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re: TT-3 Borrowdale graphite
As you must have noticed, Henry Petroski's *The Pencil* also includes
references to Nabokov:
And Vladimir Nabokov articulated the same idea with a different image: "I
have written--often several times--every word I have ever published. My
pencils outlast their erasures" (50).
In its 1940 catalogue, the Eagle Pencil Company offered its top-of-the-line
Mikado (five cens in its basic style) specially equipped--perhaps for
writers like Nabokov--with an "oversize eraser, big enough to outlast the
pencil" (352).
Best,
Akiko
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L