Now open– a letter!
Posted by Dirck on 19 July, 2009
Look what I managed to do yesterday:
The image is also a link to a much larger and more legible version. I hope I’ve found the right tone of disappointment without wandering into lunatic crackpottery. The terrible thing is, the faded portion came out of the pen almost the same colour as the unfaded. It went wrong over the course of a few hours, and one can only imagine what next year will show. I can imagine some elderly couple in 2062, stumbling upon a pile of old letters tied up in a red ribbon, which upon opening turn out not to be the love-letters he’d sent her in the summer of 2010 but a load of pages blank of anything but a few cryptic and well-separated light green squiggles. Poor show, Parker.
Today’s pen: Parker 45
Today’s ink: Pelikan black
A note from the near-future version of me– there’s been positive action on the ink matter!
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