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No Such Thing As A Fish

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Robert Burns Poems

Researchers from the university of glasgow have analyzed burn's poems. They lifted ink away in a way that didn't damage the original manuscripts. When he was young and poor, he used a particular kind of irongall ink. Andh as he got richer, he used thisa thing called ivory black. It involved treacle and lard and acid and vinegar and ivory. The really gold thing is they've found different recipes from different stages of his life. He would have been great on twitter. Would t be funny. I thank widdy odyashes for treating really tedious things. Abot making your own ink. Yes, am, yes.

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