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Reader Feedback on "Objectified: The Fountain Pen"
Perhaps Rufus should try the Pilot Varsity (TM reserved, no doubt)...it is a fine, DISPOSABLE fountain pen, and quite tidy, for those worried about the reactions of others to their ink-stained digits.
It has a medium point, but the clever user will respond to this--in my view, defect--by simply inverting the nib and writing with the point upside-down. It makes for a crisp clean line, and one's hands remain free of taint.
While I love the computer, and ultimately all of my own writing is committed to disk, I nonetheless draft my work on good old yellow legal pads, using the aforesaid instrument. Few other purely non-sexual endeavors are as satisfying.
--WLA
05/24 |
ah the shaeffer cartridge! i have always loved the feeling of starting one -- there is always a moment spent doubting whether the thick plastic shell will succumb to the skewer that you described so well.
i was forced to start using fountain pens when i went to a convent school at age nine. those were messy years, but they have left me loath to write with anything else.
--sw
04/19 |
I once was asked why a lawyer would use such a device, after the final wire to the server and monitor on my new office desk was installed. The fountain pen. I held my pen in my hand and said, "The pen in a weapon but the ink is a tool." I never understood what or why I said this until I read your defense.
Thank you for explaining this to me now.
--DV
04/03 |
Dear Rufus;
Your descriptive passage of the fountain pen-is truly seductive and brilliant! Taking this in another direction,however, I'm reminded of the visual beauty of ink calligraphy as seen in many colophons in Chinese painting (check the Met's collection) Another reflection on the lost discipline of penmanship-Last year I remember seeing a great example of 19th century American graffiti:
a superbly carved tourist's signature etched into the bark of a giant California Sequoia tree. Just another variation on a theme. Love your articles! Regards, from one of your new readers- Karen Hayward
--KH
02/28 |
Tantric journalism.
Lucky fountain pen.
"The faithful are mirrors to one another." - Rumi
A pleasure.
--ML
02/08 |
Ahh, fountain pens. For me, an obession! As far opposite the hyper-technical world as you can get. Whenever I go to flea markets, estate auctions, garage sales, it's the first thing I ask about. I will happily sit on the floor with a huge box of pens and pick out the few gems, old Eberhards, Wearevers, and Montblanc!!! How amazing. Buy them for $5 each, take them to the Fountain Pen Hospital in NYC, get them repaied and see how their previous owner wrote with them. I have 20 or so of these, all different colours and textures and their allure never fails to sway me.
--LZ
02/07 |
I was once given a lovely fountain pen by a dear friend. He knew I would appreciate the mechanics of the thing, and knew i'd melt over the fact that it was, afterall, a Fountain Pen. He also gave me some ra-sha-sha paper to use in conjunction with it. Lo and behold- I found that, as you so eloquently put it, the fountain pen is a testy object that only a Certain Few will ever be able to properly master. After a year of "trying", i retired it to my jewelry box. After several years of opening my jewelry box, only to have it taunt me like some very present, yet unattainable beloved, I tossed it into the trash.
I haven't looked back.
--glam
02/04 |
he he that is a funny article
--gm
02/02 |
More, please.
It was good, can we have more?
--IZ
01/30 |
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