5 Reach into the body and pull out the clear, plastic-like quill.
"I have my blues," he thinks defensively, as he watches Quill mix up colours and remembers various skies he's seen.
Ganesh appears in some unofficial versions of the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic, as a scribe, whose quill pen breaks in his haste to record the poem as a sage recites it.
Medieval Christian monks preferred to use a quill, made from goose or swan feathers, and modern secular calligraphers often use the same antiquarian tool.
Possibly only Mr Newby could notice, while treading water off the east coast of Sicily in 1942 and trying to avoid being shot at by Germans, that the plume of smoke over Etna looked like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter ink-pot.Well-equipped he may seldom have been, but he was usually well-dressed.
That an independent Scotland died at the quill rather than at the sword explains why it was never wholly dissolved into the British state.
Each time the conventioneers set to work you can feel them mentally posing for their portraits, quill pens in hand.
"The idea that we can succeed with a quill pen approach to identity when this country is being targeted by criminal gangs is absurd," said one of his officials.Illegal immigration is one reason why Mr Blunkett is so keen on the idea.
With Ms Epstein wielding the quill pen, it was not an old, learned, respectable bald head that would edit and annotate the lines.
The reed pen never had the widespread popularity of quill or metal pens, but for special effects it has served artists admirably; for example, the 19th-century Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in his last years used it in his drawings to produce the blunt, powerful strokes that were counterparts of the heavy brush strokes typical of many of his canvases.
This characteristic, combined with the flexibility of the quill point, which responds to pressure for varying the widths of lines or forming accents, made it adaptable to the diverse personal styles of draftsmen from the 15th to the end of the 19th century.
