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BarkellWH
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 RE: Anyone into pens? (in reply to Escribano)
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Making fountain pens is an unusual but interesting pursuit, Simon. I have always been fascinated by well-made fountain pens. They are precision instruments that are aesthetically beautiful, much like well-made mechanical watches and clocks. I would never own a digital or quartz watch. I'll stick with the mechanical version. Old clocks are things of beauty as well. I have a Viennese wall clock with a pendulum that was made in 1890, and it keeps perfect time. Needless to say, I prefer putting pen to paper and have little use for social media, but then I consider myself an analog man living in a digital age.
Bill
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And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
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Date Sep. 29 2017 20:42:52
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BarkellWH
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RE: Anyone into pens? (in reply to Escribano)
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I recently had to learn how to fix my Montblanc fountain pen, as the repair bill was going to be silly money. It's a long story, but the pen now works fine and hooked me onto pens (mainly of the fountain variety). It has got so bad that tomorrow I take delivery of a lathe, various tools and the components to make my own.
Simon,
You may be familiar with the British author Anthony Horowitz, who is the screenwriter for the television series "Midsomer Murders" and "Foyle's War," as well as the author of, among other works, a couple of Sherlock Holmes mysteries approved by the estate of Arthur Conan doyle. He has recently published a novel entitled "Magpie Murders," which is a Russian doll-like murder mystery within a murder mystery. Very good, by the way.
I bring this up because I just read a New York Times interview in which Mr. Horowitz said he writes every day, using a fountain pen for his first drafts (“I love the physicality, the scratch of the nib, the crumpled balls of paper”), wherever he finds himself. It reminded me of your project making fine fountain pens. I love fountain pens as well. Much more creative (coming close to calligraphy) than pounding on a keyboard.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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