A fetish, satisfied
Oct. 10th, 2003 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThis will be work-safe. I'm pimping a product.
Today, I walked down to the office-supply store a couple of blocks away. It was just a whim; I was going down to see if they had a notebook to replace the one I'd filled up a couple of days ago. Yeah, they buy me super-cheapies at work, some Avery "national brand" line college-ruled crap, but I hate those things. I had a quad-ruled "laboratory notebook" from the UW bookstore that I was using for a while, there, but like I said it was full now.
I went over to the spiral-bound notebooks and noticed they had the Clairefontaine 11x17cm notebooks. I cast my eyes over the collection, but didn't see what I was looking for. I looked down at the full-size spiral-bounds and there, in a box on the floor, were Clairefontaine Mosai-bound Multi-Subject quad-ruled 5/cm notebooks, 21x30cm, 90g/m^2. I grabbed the one off the top and clutched it to my chest. I paid for it and ran back to the office.
It's the paper. Clairefontaine papers have always been just sheer pleasure to write on. It heavy stuff, durable, blissfully smooth and easy to write on. Ink never bleeds and pencil marks stay where they are put. When I fill up one of these notebooks, my development process grinds to a halt until I decide I can suffer with cheap variants. There's just nothing quite like them.
It's irrational, but I'm just irrepressably happy right now. I can write longhand again-- and enjoy it. I can take notes once more-- and not resent the medium. Writing with a pen again becomes the pleasurable, enjoyable experience it's meant to be.
Today, I walked down to the office-supply store a couple of blocks away. It was just a whim; I was going down to see if they had a notebook to replace the one I'd filled up a couple of days ago. Yeah, they buy me super-cheapies at work, some Avery "national brand" line college-ruled crap, but I hate those things. I had a quad-ruled "laboratory notebook" from the UW bookstore that I was using for a while, there, but like I said it was full now.
I went over to the spiral-bound notebooks and noticed they had the Clairefontaine 11x17cm notebooks. I cast my eyes over the collection, but didn't see what I was looking for. I looked down at the full-size spiral-bounds and there, in a box on the floor, were Clairefontaine Mosai-bound Multi-Subject quad-ruled 5/cm notebooks, 21x30cm, 90g/m^2. I grabbed the one off the top and clutched it to my chest. I paid for it and ran back to the office.
It's the paper. Clairefontaine papers have always been just sheer pleasure to write on. It heavy stuff, durable, blissfully smooth and easy to write on. Ink never bleeds and pencil marks stay where they are put. When I fill up one of these notebooks, my development process grinds to a halt until I decide I can suffer with cheap variants. There's just nothing quite like them.
It's irrational, but I'm just irrepressably happy right now. I can write longhand again-- and enjoy it. I can take notes once more-- and not resent the medium. Writing with a pen again becomes the pleasurable, enjoyable experience it's meant to be.
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Date: 2003-10-10 08:35 pm (UTC)I did notice that the parent company of your favorite notebook mfr is also the parent company for Brause, the makers of my favorite calligraphy nibs.