#orneither

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We hope you’re well and ready for what may be the dullest or most inspirational pieces of both verse and prose written about pens and/or paper.

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Alexandra & Nico|Nico & Alexandra

Alexandra

This week was tough and we really questioned what we were thinking 20 weeks ago, when we put this title in the jar. It was probably my idea, ‘Let’s be clever…abstract...contemporary’. As a result, this week I am posting some writing I did over the weekend – with pen and paper – as a stream of consciousness. I’ve typed it up exactly as I wrote it, regardless of possible spelling or grammatical errors. I call it, ‘Pen or Paper: a deconstructive rambling’. 

Is that a question, or a statement? I know I probably prefer paper – if that’s what this title is even suggesting – to say, a computer screen. But I know that might make people feel sad because of the environment. I always – rightly or wrongly – always write these blogs in draft on paper, with a pen. I love a sturdy fountain pen, me. I love a pencil for notes though, on scripts, in books, on Post-Its mainly because you can rub them out – the notes you make – and start again, pretend it didn’t happen. I like a pencil with an eraser atop it but then I also have a pen with an eraser for my diary so when I’m cancelled on, ‘released’ for a job or moved to a more convenient time, I don’t have to relive the shame when I see the entry has gone altogether, and doesn’t still exist but with a line through it. If I had to choose pen or paper, of course that would be a very different story. Can one even have one without the other? Should one? I suppose sans pen, you could still use the paper to make a paper aeroplane or a snowflake and I suppose without paper but well equipped with pen, one can always write with the implement on the hand but never have I turned down paper for my hand, thought the possible risk of ink poisoning and washing off my note or reminder is the better alternative. So paper. But how lucky I am to have the choice. Which brings me back to ‘pen or paper’; a question or statement? Could make a good name for a band. Or a stationary shop. The possibilities are endless. Well, until the ink runs out and the trees die…

Nico 

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