Re: OT Nostalgic history of the pen (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Roger Mills scripsit:

> (I've never heard "biro" either-- sounds like a trade name.  For a while we
> distinguished "Bics", but that's generally a cheap cigarette lighter
> nowadays.)
Ah yes.  Translation exercise (from the Bulwer-Lytton bad writing competition):

        The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the
        cruel post of the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian
        tribe now stacking wood at her nubile feet, when the strong
        clear voice of the poetic and heroic Handsomas roared,
        "Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you'll feel my steel
        through your last meal."

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It was impossible to inveigle           John Cowan <jcowan@...>
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For his Phenomenology.                      --W. H. Auden, from "People" (1953)

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