My Fountain Pen, My Fetish by Bruce Schimmel Of all the objects in this room, only one has been with me for more than a decade. My fountain pen. Montblanc doesn't make this model anymore.
Immutable changes call for permanent black ink.
Typing into a computer is a dash, as your words sometimes outpace your thoughts. Fast typing is a poor medium for careful thought. But there's no rushing a fountain pen, because words in ink bond permanently to paper. So every word is a commitment. With no deletions, only scratchy revisions, the clumsy medium of pen and ink forces you to think twice, write once and make sense.