Ibram

My Great-great-great-great-great grandfather Ibram S. Quill was one of the scribes who wrote the Original Constitution, and the story of this spelling anomaly was passed down in my Family through the generations.

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Ibram knew that both the Nuns and their prodigy, generation after generation, would read the capitol E and take Umbrage, reach reflexively for their rulers, and find nothing to strike.

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Irving Sandler with Ibram Lassaw's "Kwannon" (1952)

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This experience taught Ibram the beautiful and ornate penmanship that we admire to this day, but it also bestowed upon him a rebellious streak.

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While working on this great parchment late one night under the dim Light of a single candle, Ibram decided to take his revenge, and lifting his hand in satisfaction, he traced the arc of the capital E rather than the lower case.

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In later years, on this death Bed, Ibram shared this story with this son, and so it has come to be passed down from generation to generation and our family, and I now share it with you, so that you may be enlightened and share pleasure in this great act of Patriotic defiance.

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Ibram Lassaw's more intricately constructed necklaces do not quite make it from sculptural to wearable, but are an intriguing hybrid.

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Irving Sandler with Ibram Lassaw's "Kwannon" (1952)

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You see, Ibram was a proud man, having learned his spelling and penmanship at the hand of some of the most severe Nuns in the world.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Create a Constitutional Theory Out of This 2010

While working on this great parchment late one night under the dim Light of a single candle, Ibram decided to take his revenge, and lifting his hand in satisfaction, he traced the arc of the capital E rather than the lower case.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Create a Constitutional Theory Out of This 2010