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Anybody know what Martin Luther King wrote with, I have contacted his biographer with the question, who was just about as helpful as a hole in the head :ph34r:

 

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Eh, is/was King a famous writer?  ;)

So, you are getting difficult on me are you ;)

 

Not an author in the traditional sense, but have read his material and find it awesome, so indulge me please, even if he isn't an "author".

 

Challenge you to come up with an answer on that one :blink:

 

Daniel

"Sweating is the bodies way of weeping with desire," he said. "Five more cry baby, five more", she said.

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Hi Dan,

 

O yes, I’m in a difficult and bullying mood. And it is a Saturday, so there is no female staff around I can bully (saying: “Oh, how I love the good old days, when women stayed at home and didn’t roam around offices!”). :roflmho:

 

M.L. King wasn’t primarily a writer, let alone a writer of fiction. When I started this topic, I had fiction writers in mind, mostly Dead White Males like Lovecraft (A great discussion somewhere else on this forum), Hawthorne, Melville and W.D. Howells (pic below!). I wonder what Howells is using.

 

Because he wrote a book, please don’t tell me William F. Clinton is a great writer too! ;)

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hi,

 

women do not roam around offices--we control them!!

 

:meow: :bunny1: :meow: :bunny1:

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking- william butler yeats
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. robert frost

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Hi Dan,

 

O yes, I’m in a difficult and bullying mood. And it is a Saturday, so there is no female staff around I can bully (saying: “Oh, how I love the good old days, when women stayed at home and didn’t roam around offices!”).  :roflmho:

 

M.L. King wasn’t primarily a writer, let alone a writer of fiction. When I started this topic, I had fiction writers in mind, mostly Dead White Males like Lovecraft (A great discussion somewhere else on this forum), Hawthorne, Melville and W.D. Howells (pic below!). I wonder what Howells is using.

 

Because he wrote a book, please don’t tell me William F. Clinton is a great writer too!  ;)

My friend Johan,

 

I tease my wife at times and ask" Oh, where are the days when tired men used to come home from work and warm excellent food waited for them'. And then my wife tells me something along the lines like "Well, they were running their own company, taking care of the children, completing their Phd and raising their infantile husband", and I find myself eating toast and jam for a week :doh:

 

Now then, does anyone know with what pens Luther King wrote? Not giving up easily :angry:

 

Daniel

"Sweating is the bodies way of weeping with desire," he said. "Five more cry baby, five more", she said.

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hi,

 

women do not roam around offices--we control them!!

 

:meow: :bunny1: :meow: :bunny1:

And guess what, something inside us likes being controlled at times, so knock yourselves out ;)

 

Daniel

"Sweating is the bodies way of weeping with desire," he said. "Five more cry baby, five more", she said.

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My husband and I were at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle a couple of weeks ago (it's the one started by Paul Allen of Microsoft fame) and saw a display of some of the manuscript (Quicksilver?) pages written by Neal Stephenson using a fountain pen (no, the pen wasn't there, IIRC). The museum also displayed all the empty bottles of Waterman (I think it was Blue-Black) ink and empty cartridges of Mont Blanc and Jorge Hysek (I didn't know they made ink!) ink used to write the manuscript.

 

In the back of Quicksilver, there is a series of production notes, including the following:

 

"The manuscript of the Baroque Cycle was written by hand on 100 percent cotton paper, using three different fountain pens: a Waterman Gentleman, a Rotring, and a Jorg Hysek."

 

Incidentally, the Baroque Cycle (of which Quicksilver was the first volume) is a total of three volumes of 900+ pages each - so I am sure he used a lot of ink.

 

It's kind of funny to think that Stephenson, who is known for being a cyber-punk SF writer, would write out his novels in longhand. Of course, elsewhere in the production notes it talks about all the software used to transcribe and typeset the book, including some sort of conversion program that he wrote himself.

 

It is also ironic in some ways that pages of Quicksilver are in the Science fiction museam at all - since the book is much more a historical novel than any sort of Science Fiction, and only has a few hints of fantasy in it. So in a sense the fountain pen makes more sense than the SF Museam.

 

But great to see FPs highlighted there. I need to get over to the SF Museam some time - waiting for the kids to get a little older so they will understand it all. . .

 

John

So if you have a lot of ink,

You should get a Yink, I think.

 

- Dr Suess

 

Always looking for pens by Baird-North, Charles Ingersoll, and nibs marked "CHI"

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Yikes! :o I could never throw one of my pens against a wall! Wait - there's that pen I once had with the really scratchy point . . . Well - anyway - I hate to think of Doyle as a pen abuser so I'll just assume that his pen was on its last legs by the time he finished the book.

 

From what I can see of the bust of Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett was a good choice to play the part.

 

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A photo of Vladimir Nabokov from "Speak Memory An autobiograhy

revisited"

The inscription for the photo in part reads: "The end of my robust, dark

brown penholder (a beloved tool of young oak that I used during all twenty

years of my literary labors in Europe and may rediscover yet in one my

trunks Dean's, Ithaca, N.Y.) is already well chewed..."

 

From his description, I gather it was a dip pen.

Great book by the way.

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