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Pencil
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PENCIL. An instrument made of plumbago, black lead, red chalk, or other suitable substance, for writing without ink.
     2. It has been holden that a will written with a pencil, could riot, on this account, be annulled. 1 Phillim. R. 1; 2 Phillim. 173.



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These ideas permeated the ICP exhibition of Muniz's own photographs of representational images that were made by hand - I'm tempted to say "from scratch" - out of dirt, sugar, wire, thread, cotton balls, plasticine, chocolate syrup, and yes, even pencil lead.
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