The exodus of jazzy pigeons . . .
Perhaps when you were in elementary school you learned a pangram or two. A pangram (from the Greek pan gramma) is a sentence or phrase that contains all the letters of the alphabet. Here is one that you may have seen:
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Cases for loose type (also called job cases, or California job cases) are often labeled with a strip of paper on which a pangram has been printed in the font the case contains, to help you envision what your printed material will look like.
Over at Green Chair Press, Susan has a wonderful post today featuring some great photos of job cases adorned with such pangrammic magic. My favorite:
For more printerly/book bindingly/artistic/poetic wonder, visit the blog for yourself.
Your quote from Merton is not from Illusory Flowers… which is my blog. I quoted it on my blog, and someone reposted it, and now it’s getting attributed to me. It’s actually from his book New Seeds of Contemplation.
Oops! Thank you–I’ve fixed that up. And will visit your blog.