. . . use an ink that is not permanent?
I have many inks and many pens and a great many journals. The inks that formed the non-permanent part of my ink cellar used to be used for writing drafts of stories that would be edited and later used with permanent inks for inclusion in journals. I sometimes used these non-permanent inks to fill my EDC pen. What the hell, the pen was only used for my shirt pocket notebook. What could go wrong with that?
One morning, I was caught in a summer shower while going to my post office box 200 meters from my door and the few drops of rain that fell onto the top of my notebook did an annoying amount of damage to my notes. The rain drops completely obliterated parts of words and numbers that I thought were secure from my ageing memory.
I took all the inks from my cellar that couldn't show permanence in the face of distilled water and poured them down the closest woodchuck hole. All of those nice glass bottles got thrown into the clink (recycle bin).
Pretty colors be damned. Permanence is the reason I write things down.
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