“May the scribes record it.”

“Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.”

“The aim of the research is to determine what groups can be drawn up as a result of regular association of place-names. A further step is to consider whether such groups have a geographical significance. This was accepted by Palmer as a reasonable hypothesis; Wilson argued the case for it by considering possible ways in which information to be recorded on the tablets was received by the scribes. Underlying this work is the assumption that groupings may have a geographical basis, but it has still to be shown that this is a reasonable assumption.”

“Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.”

“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.”

“I’m in danger of losing my job as official scribe to my inner voice.”