Re: writin' on paper (wasRe: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 09:27  AM, Elyse Grasso wrote:

> On Sunday 27 April 2003 07:22 pm, J Y S Czhang wrote:
>> en mem0 2003:04:27 09:17:23 g0zen Dan (dnsulani@ZAHAV.NET.IL)
> graeffii:
>>
>>> There is something about the feel of wood and graphite,
>>> something about using the rubber eraser, something about
>>> all the different types of paper --- the weights, the textures,
>>> the smells, the sounds the different types of paper make as they
>>> are handled. The sounds of the different types of leads as
>>> they make their way over the paper --- or cardboard or
>>> other writing surface! ( BTW, I also like chalk!
>>> I love the different types of sound that different types of
>>> chalk [or chalky rocks] make on different writing surfaces!)
>>
>>     That is not surprising... Reminds me of my father saying that one
> of the
>> chief things (other than scholarship and persecution) that Chinese and
> Jews
>> hold in common is the love of actually writing.
>>
>
>> ---
>> Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger
>>
>
> I suspect that anyone who finds writing kinesthetically pleasant is
> right-handed. For me personally, if things couldn't progress firectly
> from brain to keyboard, nothing would get done.
You may be right. I am right-handed, and I have recently become
reacquainted with the pleasure of writing on paper. About 13 years ago,
I received as a gift a very nice fountain pen (a Pelikan 100). I used
it for a while for the novelty effect but then became enamored of
word-processing and almost stopped writing altogether.

Last year I found another fountain pen (a Parker Super 21; it's a
cheaper version of the celebrated 51 -- octanium instead of gold nib)
in a box at my parents' house and remembered the old Pelikan tucked
away in a box. I got it back out and started using it again along with
the Parker. There really is nothing like the feel of a good fountain
pen on high quality paper; the pen literally glides across the surface
on a thin film of ink. It's the closest I think I'll ever get to the
grace of ice-skating.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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