Bread and Bandages
4/15/2006
  The Smell of Solitude
08.20.2003
01.05.2005


I'm 25 years old, in between tails, and developing a fetish for medium-nib
black ink fountain pens. They only come in packages with purple
and blue, but I also use the black ones first. The blue ones
I use when necessary, the purple I give along to friends.
I never throw out the black pens, and never keep
the blue after they run down. The lovely thing about fountain
pen ink is how it smells.




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"As sickness is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sickness, is solitude....Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in Hell itself."
John Donne
As quoted by Oliver Sacks; Awakenings (21)
 
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