Dizzy
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Post by Dizzy on Jun 16, 2006 3:08:51 GMT -5
Paper is an unknown on our AU. the colonists wrote on plastic sheets extruded from their plymeric synthesizers. Later generations used slates, hide, and canvas for their message sheets. After all this time, there is rarely anything left in most writing desks but scraped and rescraped hide used over and over again, which makes the ink run into indecipherability. there is a lot of hide available, but most often it is put to other uses, and only scraps are used for writing.
Message slates are written on using charcoal sticks, or painted witha water-soluble pigment, for ease in reuse. Other slates are covered with a vegetable lipid that resembles wax and can be melted smooth again and again for inscribing messages or practicing penmanship.
Sandtables are also used. Wet the sand and use a sharp tiped object to inscribe.
(Dragonlover's Guide To Pern. Second edition. Jody Lynn Nye w/ Anne MacCaffrey. Copyright 1989, 1997. Bill Fawcett and Accociates. Pg. 78)
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