What Are Fountain Pens All About

[GOB Bluth]

Reading in another topic, someone gave advice about getting back to what fountain pens are all about.

 

So, I'd like to know: WHAT ARE FOUNTAIN PENS ALL ABOUT.

 

I am trying to figure that out for myself, as I find myself using them more and more and more.

 

Try to keep it to a sentence.

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real writing.

[WendyNC]

Fountain pens are about writing--and drawing--in a way which provides aesthetic pleasure for the writer/artist and the reader/viewer.

[Pen Is Mightier]

For me it is writing with a ink of my choice, and a pen that is both smooth and effortless to use.

[jgrasty]

Effortless writing.

[Kaych]

Glad I could inspire such a thread

 

For me, it's using the pen to connect to your words and actually feel what you are writing, not the pen itself.

[farmersmums]

Fountain pens are an homage to the days when the written word, and the act of writing in itself, really meant something.

[pkoko]

Gliding across paper

[scoli83]

A more refined, beautiful and enlightened time.

[voop]

Comfortable, efficient writing tools, foremost.

 

Esthetics secondarily.

[The Bantam Scribbler]

To shamelessly lift a phrase from Star Trek, I would classify the fountain pen experience as "infinite diversity in infinite combinations."

Edited October 26, 2010 by The Bantam Scribbler

[stevlight]

Fountain pens are:

 

The most sublime way to put ink on paper.

[Pippin60]

A link to the past, when tools were not only functional but had beautiful aesthetics as well.

[MidnightBlue]

Mildly pretentious decadence.......Thanks........in a good way that is

[Possum Hill]

When you're writing with a fountain pen you don't want to stop with one sentence.

[Martius]

Fountain pens are about murdering with a knife rather than with a gun - in a word, appreciation.

[redisburning]

Not as clumsy or random as a ball point; an elegant pen for a more civilized age.

 

But to me, a fountain pen is: mechanical aestheticism

[colrehogan]

A link to the past, when tools were not only functional but had beautiful aesthetics as well.

 

The same could be said of view cameras.

[cadfael_tex]

Not as clumsy or random as a ball point; an elegant pen for a more civilized age.

 

 

Thanks obi wan.

 

My 2p: The potential with grace with ink.

[Trooper]

As the ink flows freely to the paper, we are reminded that we are as the ink connects with the paper, moving continuously in life and yet still remain connected to our legacy and our past.

 

Sorry - I'm watching "A River Runs Through It" Maclean was such a writer...to quote:

 

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters.

Edited October 26, 2010 by Trooper