[Vwoolf] The walrus pen-wiper in "The Years"
Linda
linda.catbirdseat at hush.com
Tue Sep 23 14:21:17 EDT 2014
It certainly was worth the click. This made my day.
Yes, thank you, Stuart!
On 9/23/2014 at 9:38 AM, "ANNE Fernald [Staff/Faculty [A&S]]"
wrote:Oh, wow. That was worth the click.
Just when I think, "ok, we have gone too far--I cannot take another
bit of Woolfian minutia," Stuart delivers with an adorable pig pen (or
nib) wipe.
Thank you.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Stuart N. Clarke wrote:
I’ve always wondered what it looked like, “the spotted walrus
with a brush in its back that Martin had given his mother on her last
birthday”; “Eleanor was sitting at her writing-table with her pen
in her hand. It's awfully queer, she thought, touching the
ink-corroded patch of bristle on the back of Martin's walrus with the
point of her pen, that that should have gone on all these years.”
It must have looked something like this pig pen-wiper:
http://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/66080/large-antique-brass-figural-pen-or-nib-wipe-pig
Stuart
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