In addition to my love of things #stochastic, I'm also deeply fascinated with #permanence, especially in the form of #writing. When I was young I was always imagining the kind of person who magically figured out that you could make black marks on stone, or cuts in wood, or whatever you liked translate to words. What a genius she must have been! (Yes, in my imagination it was always a woman.) People often claim that agriculture was the #foundation of #civilization. I disagree. It was permanence and precision in #communication that is the foundation of civilization. Writing, in short.
This is why I collect interesting forms of writing (like the bamboo slips I've shared in the past) as well as interesting or beautiful tools of writing. Today's little photo-essay is about the latter.
This is a so-called "eternal pencil". I have several of them, but this one I got because it's just so beautiful as well as practical. Details in the alt text as usual.
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