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Blog Post: IT IS [NOW] 70 YEARS + SINCE I WAS ESCORTED ...: ...…; Added by Michael Grove at 7:18 on September 15, 2022

Comment on: Blog Post 'BUCKMINSTER FULLER WROTE OVER TWENTY BOOKS...': supply, other than an excellent range of drawing equipment, including the sketchbooks that contain the predominance of my own artwork which I have used in cyberspace; as well as some of my most precious books on Design. The "Osmiroid 65" fountain pen was developed, chiefly for school children whose special needs for writing instruments had always been a matter of prime concern. A large range of nib units were made to suit right and left handed users and the several types of handwriting being taught, particular attention being paid to the Italic style. ... & so it was as a reward of merit that I received an "Osmiroid 65" fountain pen and the nuns at my primary school in the Archway, London, taught me to write in LEFT-handed italic handwriting - to the point where others took over to prepare me for my 11plus exam that gave me entrance to The Grammar School in the autumn of 1957. It was there that I first met my soul-mate Linnie and so it came to pass, 10 years later, that we were married on April 4th 1968. Linnie has since become extremely proficient in her own Italic Handwriting, as well as Calligraphy and Chinese Brush Painting. This was further supported, from an artistic perspective, through a process of Discovering Japan, as a direct result of a year long promotion in the UK, of Japanese Art and Photography. As Carter Phipps says ... "The blinders of local time are removed and we suddenly grasp the extraordinary truth that we are ancient - related to ALL LIFE and connected to the history of the cosmos itself." WE ARE THE EVOLUTIONARIES…; Added by Michael Grove at 9:22 on June 26, 2023

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