Ostensibly, the harder the male bore down on the female, the more likely the child would be male and resemble its father. Upon penetration it was thought that the penis, like the earlier technology of the signet and the wax and the newer technology of the press left a foetal imprint on the moist womb. Inasmuch as it entailed applying downward pressure on the press so as to leave behind an inked impression in moistened sheets of rag paper, this procedure was remarkably akin to what little was known about human conception before the facts of life were facts. Brooks analyses early recording techniques such as the printing press in terms of an 'embodied relation between textual and sexual reproduction': In his essay 'Bodies That Mattered', Douglas A. Also in recent use, a tracing or series of marks made by a recording instrument (Oxford English Dictionary 1989: 542). A collection of such accounts, documents etc. An account of some fact/ event preserved in writing or other permanent form a document, monument etc on which an account is inscribed, any thing or person serving to indicate or give evidence of, or preserve the memory of, a fact or event: a memorial.
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