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snap: upon looking for and finding my lovely slim brushed silver fountain pen, then searching through various drawers for ink, finally finding the little box of ink cartridges, then shoving a cartridge hard onto the pen, then trying to get the ink to flow, finally dipping the nib in some water, oops, blue on my fingers, but dried both hands and pen, and tried to write, not having completely forgotten how to hold a fountain pen but realizing as before that my penmanship is, to be polite, not the best. I want to be an ink-stained wretch again Wednesday April 30 2008 Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html There are no wrong notes! Thelonious Sphere Monk