Monday, August the 23rd, 2004
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Having read very carefully last Wednesday's quotation from Forty Centuries Of Ink by David N Carvalho (see 18th August), reader Glyn Webster has decided to carry out an experiment:
In my driveway—he writes—I have stacked a sheet of writing paper, a ball of cotton soaked in quicklime and orpin (calcium oxide and arsenic sesquisulphide) and a brick. I will examine it daily for any messages European readers of Hooting Yard may wish to send me. Procedure: write your message on the kerb in clear block capitals in saturn (lead—a fisherman's lead sinker will do, but pencil lead will not); kick that message hard four or five times, then park your car over it to apply a vice-like pressure.