Of poets and fountain pens

[oldstoat]

A poet writing on the pleasures of fountain pens; I particularly like the line " To me – I wonder if this is especially true of poets – a pen is a form of the marvellous."

https://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/the-stylophile/

[Jerome Tarshis]

That essay is itself pretty marvelous.

I'm afraid, and here my thanks are a bit qualified, thank you so much for adding to my list of Things I Ought to Do but have Left Undone So Far, that I shall have to look up both the poet and other issues of the periodical. And the novel about the collector of vintage pens.

[Kaputnik]

From the article:

"Robert Graves described an Arabic concept he called ‘baraka’. This is the quality, possessed by some older objects, of having been long used and loved. Vintage pens have this quality abundantly."

I've long recognized that quality, not just with pens, either. But now I have a word for it.