Comments on: Letters Home http://therumpus.net/2009/10/letters-home/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Sun, 27 May 2012 13:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kevin Smokler http://therumpus.net/2009/10/letters-home/comment-page-1/#comment-11489 Kevin Smokler Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:55:16 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=36601#comment-11489 Indeed. Sadly, I tend to loose things like crazy and would love a modern 21st century solution to misplacing all by ageless writing instruments. Kevin Indeed.

Sadly, I tend to loose things like crazy and would love a modern 21st century solution to misplacing all by ageless writing instruments.

Kevin

]]> By: Lindsay Price http://therumpus.net/2009/10/letters-home/comment-page-1/#comment-11235 Lindsay Price Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:33:53 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=36601#comment-11235 There's something very magical about putting pen to paper. Getting and giving hand written notes is such a different experience than firing off an email, no matter how carefully thought out that email may be. I dearly love the invention of the computer (and how did we manage without the internet, oh right we called people) but everything I create starts with pen and paper. There’s something very magical about putting pen to paper. Getting and giving hand written notes is such a different experience than firing off an email, no matter how carefully thought out that email may be. I dearly love the invention of the computer (and how did we manage without the internet, oh right we called people) but everything I create starts with pen and paper.

]]> By: Jeremy Hatch http://therumpus.net/2009/10/letters-home/comment-page-1/#comment-11142 Jeremy Hatch Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:36:38 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=36601#comment-11142 AJG: I've been writing by hand on a daily basis (not letters, just private writing and drafts of longer pieces) since I was a child, and have been mostly using a fountain pen for that for the past ten years. In other words, since I was 22. Since the summer of 2004 I've used only one pen, a solidly built, enameled glossy black steel pen by Schaeffer. Not a dip pen (though those are pleasant to use as well), but a pen with a reservoir, a converter that I fill from an ink bottle. Speaking of preferences that people take for affectation, I use Moleskine notebooks too, because the paper takes fountain pen ink without much bleed, and the bindings stand up to heavy abuse. Though I'm sure it happens, I don't really mind the prospect of being perceived as a poseur on account of these things -- people can think whatever they like, it's their problem. AJG: I’ve been writing by hand on a daily basis (not letters, just private writing and drafts of longer pieces) since I was a child, and have been mostly using a fountain pen for that for the past ten years. In other words, since I was 22. Since the summer of 2004 I’ve used only one pen, a solidly built, enameled glossy black steel pen by Schaeffer. Not a dip pen (though those are pleasant to use as well), but a pen with a reservoir, a converter that I fill from an ink bottle. Speaking of preferences that people take for affectation, I use Moleskine notebooks too, because the paper takes fountain pen ink without much bleed, and the bindings stand up to heavy abuse. Though I’m sure it happens, I don’t really mind the prospect of being perceived as a poseur on account of these things — people can think whatever they like, it’s their problem.

]]> By: AJG http://therumpus.net/2009/10/letters-home/comment-page-1/#comment-11128 AJG Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:15:18 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=36601#comment-11128 I love your attitude about fountain pen writing... I use one and always am irked when people smile as if it's some kind of cute affectation--a young person with a fountain pen. I actually just like it, dammit! Also: because I like it, I carry it around with me more than I would a Bic pen. People often seemed surprised that at a writer would carry a pen. What a world. Anyway, thanks for the great, thoughtul essay. I love your attitude about fountain pen writing… I use one and always am irked when people smile as if it’s some kind of cute affectation–a young person with a fountain pen. I actually just like it, dammit! Also: because I like it, I carry it around with me more than I would a Bic pen. People often seemed surprised that at a writer would carry a pen. What a world.
Anyway, thanks for the great, thoughtul essay.

]]> By: Kevin Smokler http://therumpus.net/2009/10/letters-home/comment-page-1/#comment-11125 Kevin Smokler Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:32:13 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=36601#comment-11125 Thank you Marianne. That was very nice of you!. Thank you Marianne. That was very nice of you!.

]]> By: Marianne Choquet http://therumpus.net/2009/10/letters-home/comment-page-1/#comment-11116 Marianne Choquet Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:39:06 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=36601#comment-11116 Hi Kevin - Thanks for the ode to letter-writing. I smiled often reading you. We've read the same books! I'll have to find a real address for you to send a charming note your way one day. Best Wishes for a fulfilling life and marriage, Marianne Hi Kevin – Thanks for the ode to letter-writing. I smiled often reading you. We’ve read the same books! I’ll have to find a real address for you to send a charming note your way one day. Best Wishes for a fulfilling life and marriage, Marianne

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