From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:49 AM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: TT-3 Borrowdale graphite (fwd)

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Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:33 PM +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re:      TT-3  Borrowdale graphite


As you must have noticed, Henry Petroski's *The Pencil* also includes references to Nabokov:

And Vladimir Nabokov articulated the same idea with a different image: "I have written--often several times--every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasures" (50).

In its 1940 catalogue, the Eagle Pencil Company offered its top-of-the-line Mikado (five cens in its basic style) specially equipped--perhaps for writers like Nabokov--with an "oversize eraser, big enough to outlast the pencil" (352).

Best,
Akiko





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