[lit-ideas] Re: Hereabouts
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:24:22 -0700
On Jun 25, 2017, at 1:53 PM, Ursula Stange <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I had a friend from Fiji (he was born there as his parents were missionaries)
who had a runcible spoon....lovely friend...lovely memory....thanks for
awakening it.
I had imagined that there was no such thing as a runcible spoon, but Wikipedia
says that sometimes a grapefruit spoon with serrated edge is implied. We have
one…I think. What I had in my hand when the chickens began offering advice
was, of course, my trusty Felco pruner. Nothing runcible about it. Yay,
Switzerland.
According to Wikipedia secateurs were invented by a French aristocrat, Antoine
Francois Bertrand de Molleville.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning_shears
The Wikipedia entry on the man suggests that he wasn’t very good at anything
else... being the Chief of the Royal Secret Police or trying to get Louis out
of France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_de_Molleville
David
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