Did an internal search and did not find this article so I am leaving the link for you'all.
https://luxipens.com/18-famous-autho...fountain-pens/
Did an internal search and did not find this article so I am leaving the link for you'all.
https://luxipens.com/18-famous-autho...fountain-pens/
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Interesting topic and article. I searched a bit and found this one:
http://mossdreams.blogspot.com/2014/...ntain-pen.html
Credit belongs to the blog writer of course.
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What you write with influences the mood and thinking. William Gibson used to write on a manual portable typewriter, old reporter style, and then later transcribe to his computer for more serious editing.
I was about to comment that I didn't know Hemingway was left handed until I noticed the picture is reversed (as evidenced by the buttons on his shirt). None the less, It is a great article and an interesting topic. Now curiosity compels -- we, or more correctly I, need to find out what Siegfried Sassoon, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and GK Chesterton used.
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Interesting article, thank you for the link.
I have some factual doubts and quibbles, but quibbling is part of the fun with these articles. I'll just mention that the picture of an Esterbrook "J" associated with Simone de Beauvoir is actually an Esterbrook M2. She may have used a J, for all I know, but if so, that's not it.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
GK Chesterton at least knew a thing or two about fountain pens:
http://www.literaturepage.com/read/c...brown-190.html
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In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway reminisces about writing the early short stories with pencils.
I THOUGHT I saw Tolkien writing Elvish with an Osmiroid. But I was probably hallucinating.
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
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R.A. Stewart (December 6th, 2023)
We may have had similar hallucinations, although I wouldn't know an Osmiroid if I saw one. I think I remember a better picture than this, but this is what some rapid Googling comes up with. Exactly what the pen is isn't clear from this picture, and I couldn't prove that that's Tolkien's hand holding it, but for what it's worth.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/j-r-r-tolkie...com-1824211114
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
Sailor Kenshin (September 15th, 2020)
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
Entirely possible, but it would have been much later in his life, after the books gained notoriety.
Probably was an Osmiroid, though, if anything, because of their wide range or script nibs available.
Edit: Found the video clip, but its grainy. Good luck: https://youtu.be/Ca5TUYB1nlw?t=252
Edit 2: slightly better video quality on Facebook. Still hard to tell what kind of pen it is, though. https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/...53444925702567
Last edited by AzJon; September 15th, 2020 at 02:49 PM.
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
AzJon (September 16th, 2020)
Sassoon's wartime journals and diaries have now been digitised by Cambridge University Library , you can find them here https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon/1 . From the look of the journals it seems he used pencil but mainly what looks like ink from a dip pen - there are distinct signs in many cases of recharging the ink. What he used after the war and for the rest of his like i'm unsure .
An old bloke (September 15th, 2020)
Thanks for the link Chris.
It isn't surprising that much of Sassoon's journals were written in pencil. I've seen other WWI soldier's journals written in pencil. Officers and NCOs in WWI were instructed to use pencil to write despatches when in the field. Pencils are reliable and easily sharpened, and as such were the choice in the trenches.
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