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Posts Tagged ‘fountain pens’

Pen

Packing for my trip to Tennessee, I had a brilliant idea: bring an empty fountain pen, and a bottle of ink.  The pressure change on an airplane makes filled fountain pens spurt ink, ruining pants and pockets and suitcases.  Packing pen and ink separately (I thought) would shortcut this problem.

Unpacking after the flight, I discover that the pen made it through fine, but the (sealed) bottle of ink vented ink all over the (sealed) ziplock bag I packed it in.  My clothes are safe, but that’s another theory sent back to the drawing board.

New Toys

I know a pen doesn’t make a writer – it’s been a lot more than a decade since I last wrote out an entire novella in longhand, after all – but dipping my feet into the waters of Fountain Pen Land has been a lot of fun.  My bright blue new Lamy Safari feels like a zippy little Japanese race car, and lays a nice thin line.  I know I need to work on my sales resistance, though, when the first thing I do after I get a new fountain pen (after trying it out, of course) is stare longingly at other fountain pens.

The internet, ladies and gentlemen.  The curse of Eris no longer applies to immortals only.