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Chaos is a map-maker's concept. After you have drawn in the part of the world you know, you must fill in to the edge of the parchment. Always a little beyond known seas begin the chimeras and monsters which obviously exist. They occupy the page to the edge where the border says we can stop, breathless. But we never know what is beyond the limits of our map and mind. On clear days we venture into that darkness, we take all that we know from our world and because we cannot know better, define our new visions with...
...Parchment Scrolls. Dennis Haslinger, who sold mutual funds for Wallace Investments, Inc., in Cleveland, is now also marketing heraldic devices out of an old house that is a local historical monument. He starts with a direct-mail offer of family crests on a parchment scroll. When he gets a nibble -some status-starved customers eagerly order as many as 50 scrolls-he sends off a catalogue listing family-tree plaques, blazer crests and family histories. "Anyone with a name and $2 is my market," he says. "I've always wanted a business of my own. I couldn...
...breakfast with Singer, his wife, Rabbi Gold from Hillel House, and a friend who was cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence...
...catalogue printed in the same parchment tones of the prints describes the techniques Rembrandt used to create his shadowy imagery. He juggled lines - etched, and engraved - according to what he drew, sometimes combining all three in one print. He worked the delicately teethed lines into the most careful description-to weave the wrinkles in a face or show the heaviness of a drapery. He employed rougher drypoint or engraved lines for bolder cuts...
...postcards, cuff links and assorted junk. A cheese manufacturer is distributing 10 million color pictures of Grande Armée heroes. Paris hairdressers decreed the N line: a lock dangling over the forehead. For three dollars, one may acquire a replica of the Emperor's will on pseudo parchment with an imitation red seal. Says an official of the Bonapartist political party that has ruled Ajaccio for over a century: "When we Corsicans put our right hand inside our coat like the Emperor, it's on our heart. Others are feeling for their wallet...