Pipistrello's Commonplace Book

INGREDIENTS LISTS: "C" Carbon Paper Crystal or Methyl Violet Base  300 parts Red Oil                                     600 parts Sesame Oil                            3500-4000 parts Carnauba Wax                       3500 parts Chalk, Billiard Calcium Carbonate, Precipitated    115 g. Gypsum, Calcined                            35 g. Pigment Powder (Blue, Green)        50 g. Borax Water                                       2% Crayon, Blackboard Calcium Carbonate, Precipitated     60 lb Kaolin Clay                                     40 lb Saponified Oleic Acid                       5 lb Caustic Soda                                   3/4 lb Corn Remedy Acetone                                 168 oz. Castor Oil                                 3 oz. Venice Turpentine                     6 oz. Celluloid                                  10 oz. Salicylic Acid                          40 oz. Ethylaminobenzoate                10 oz. Oil Soluble Chlorophyl, sufficient until dark g

They tried to look as if they were listening, but they couldn't keep it up. Sitting silent, talk was collecting inside them. Talk is like love; the more it is suppressed, the more it must come out. It gathers force from hindrance. Dorothy Whipple, "Tea at the Rectory", 1945

But there was a time - and the Peddars Way belongs to it - when a road, like fire and a roof, was one of the primitive blessings of life; and, more than that, a sign that men could combine in a common task and follow the same track to a journey's end. H. V. Morton, In Search of England, 1927