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@sagarb: Excellent Spencerian. I like the Copperplate signature as well. Good example of combining hands in American cursive.

 

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Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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@sagarb: Excellent Spencerian. I like the Copperplate signature as well. Good example of combining hands in American cursive.

 

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Thanks Randal..

Sagar Bhowmick

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Sagar, that's elegant and hilarious at the same time. Thank you!

 

I think I'm on tap for this week's quote. An Irish author, in celebration of St. Patrick's Day:

 

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- Edna O'Brien

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Thought about green for St. Patrick's Day but decided to use Montblanc Oyster Grey instead to give it a softer, more faded look. Also pulled out Marc Drogin's Medieval Calligraphy and worked on my Insular Miniscule hand for this one.

 

The paper matches, it is a fifty-year-old half-sheet of Southworth's typing paper for resumes.

 

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Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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Randal, I had Drogin's book in my hand, and looked at Insular minuscule a day before you've posted, but I did not have time to work through the script. Nice work on your part :-)

 

This week I've been working on my Foundational, here are the results:

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@ksm: That is an excellent example of Foundational. You have a great feel for the hands you study. Keep up the good work! I had a bit of an advantage with insular miniscule -- have worked with it before, just a matter of reminding my hand how to do it. Wish I had as good a relationship with Foundational.

 

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Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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Hi, Chris,

 

I was very fortunate in that I took a one-day seminar in 1982 that was taught by Mrs. Waters. She was excellent then and phenomenal now. One of the moderators here, Bobje, got a quick seminar from here recently and says she helped him with his italic. Still running strong. Guess I will need to add her "Foundations of Calligraphy" to my library. Can't figure out why I haven't before now. My knowledge of Foundational comes from Edward Johnston's "Writing, Illuminating, and Lettering." He is another calligrapher that is well worth studying. But don't let ink-stained ruth know what you're doing -- she feels Johnston is overrated.

 

I'm still impressed with how well you are doing with Foundational. It's something for you to be proud of.

 

Enjoy,

Yours,
Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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This is the last one of the quotes, caught up.Hooray!

 

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Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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My QOTW is from Justice Holmes. He was one of my intellectual heroes from when I was in high school. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was the son of the physician, essayist and humorist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., who was a contemporary of Emerson and Thoreau. Holmes, Jr. was wounded fighting for the Union in the Civil War. As a Lawyer and Harvard Law School Professor, he authored what still might be an authoritative treatise on the English Common Law. He became the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts State Supreme Court, and he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. He remained on the SCOTUS for 30 years, until 1932, during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was a "conservative" in the old (good) sense. He believed in the Law, but was also a pragmatic, common sensical man. We could use a lot more like Justice Holmes in public life today, in my opinion.

 

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”

 

David
P.S. Now that I am no longer as young as I once was, this has become one of my favorite anecdotes about Justice Holmes: Holmes was in the habit of walking from his lodgings to the Court, usually accompanied by one of his clerks. One of those clerks told the story that, one morning when Justice Holmes was over 90 years old, they were walking to the Court when they passed a pretty young woman. Holmes reportedly sighed, shook his head and muttered, "Oh to be 70 again!"
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Love it. Holmes, Jr. was one of our most influential jurists. Thanks for the quote.

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Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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