Re: creature [77colsX30lines]

In alt.ascii-art, colin randall  <[email protected]> wrote:
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In my experience, up to 79 columns is safe everywhere. (Anyone reading
news on smaller screens tends to know things will mess up.)

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> a tracing of a relief found on a 5000-year-old ostrich-egg

It's very good.

> i noticed that the horn is somewhat irregular but decided
> the barbarian-slave that carved it was shed-loads better at
> drawing than i am so left it as is

Could be that the animal had a distinctive look and that's why it was
drawn.

Elijah
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maybe it was a quirk of how the horn twisted