#papermill

I would love to think that Quasimodo's mother was indeed his mother and that his skin tone is just part of his overall deformity. I can't help but think that no woman would fight tooth and nail to keep a baby that wasn't hers like that. I don't think he was stolen.

HOWEVER, I also really love how they fixed that in the stage musical;

In the stage musical, Claude Frollo has a brother named Jehan and they both grew up in Notre Dame. While Claude became a perfect specimen for the church, Jehan kept breaking the rules. One night, Jehan brings a Romani woman, Florika, into Notre Dame with them and Claude tells on him, resulting in Jehan being banished from the church - this wasn't what Claude wanted by the way, he wanted to save his brother, but it wasn't his decision to make what would happen to him because of his constant rule breaking.

Years later, Claude receives a letter from his brother and he goes to see him. Florika fell ill and died and Jehan is also dying from the same illness. He tells him he and Florika have a son and asks Claude to take care of him, if he even has a heart to do so, just before Jehan dies in front of Claude.

This explains Quasimodo's skin color, Jehan was Caucasian and Florika was Romani, it's not impossible that Quasimodo would have a light skin tone because of that - and it makes Claude's character even more interesting. I really do love stage musical, it made everything even better.

I will ALWAYS recommend this stage musical as I genuinely see it as perfection. They fixed the flaws of the animated version and made it even darker and more adult - and it was already a very dark and adult cartoon.

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Dard Hunter : miscellaneous thoughts and reflections / compiled by Robert E. Massmann

William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (November 29, 1883 – February 20, 1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand. He is often credited as one of the influences in the resurgence in fine hand papermaking as a craft and an art form in the United States. That legacy can be felt on our campus with the continued tradition of hand papermaking at the Center for the Book.

Today's item includes many interesting elements, including two books, and a 3-D model of Hunters paper mill at Lime Rock, both made in part using paper that was made at the mill.

"Two-volume set of shaped books: volume 1 is shaped like the front of Hunter's mill at Lime Rock with leatherette spine and hand-colored pictorial label. Volume 2 is round to resemble a millstone in two sections, with common spine and printed label, and samples of paper made by hand at the mill.

Both of the volumes sewn by hand. Boards covered with and pages made of handmade Hunter paper. Printed pages in both volumes tipped onto the handmade leaves.

Slipcase for the set is a full 3-dimensional model of Hunter's mill at Lime Rock. It is also covered with the same handmade paper from the last lot produced at the mill at Lime Rock. Hand-colored and detailed.

Paper label on model has text: "Dard Hunter [D]oll [H]ouse. Model of Dard Hunter's paper mill at Lime Rock, Connecticut; covered with handmade paper, unfinished from the last lot produced at the mill. It was purchased in 1928, and closed in 1931. In 1955 it was completely destroyed by a flood." --Catalog

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Library copy signed by Robert E. Massmann. --Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

Factory Summers by Guy Delisle. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall. Drawn & Quarterly, 2021. 9781770464599. 156pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781770464599?partnerid=34778&p_bt

At sixteen, Delisle was hired for a summer job at Quebec City's pulp and paper mill, where his father had been working for thirty years. His first job, as a sixth hand on one of the machines producing newsprint, involved operating a crane that moved massive paper rolls, cleaning the alleyways between machines, and dealing with the large amounts of paper that broke and unspooled from the rolls onto the floor. (He had to push it into a space under the floor with something like a squeegee.) The work was tiring and noisy, and the factory was like a a deafening sauna where the only relief was a soundproof break shack.

Delisle continued this summer job for years as he worked toward a career in animation and eventually comics. Many of the regular workers in the factory were a bit rough around the edges, though enough were odd and entertaining. And Delisle found a kind of joy in doing the difficult, sometimes dangerous tasks he was given, some of which required specific skills useful nowhere else. (It reminded me of the year I spent fixing cars in high school, a year during which I endured jokes, soaked myself repeatedly in dangerous chemicals, and learned to put up with the other mechanics' senses of humor.)

When did people start using tissues?

I learned this today. Paper tissues have been used for 1500 years in China, but the modern tissue was invented in 1924. Paper was invented in China in about 100 BC. A government official called Ts’ai Lun is credited as the person who started the paper-making industry. His paper was made by mixing finely chopped mulberry bark and hemp rags with water. He then pulped it, pressed the water out, and…