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7 FUNCTION PEN HAS RETURNED

1. It’s a pen

a few months ago I was on a plane flying across the U.S.  I had a couple friends with me, but we weren’t seated together, so I was sat between a middle-aged businessman and a very elderly man.  after takeoff was over I flipped down my tray table and pulled a big ol’ book out of my bag, with a couple pencils and stickynotes, and set to work preparing for my upcoming exams.  next to me, the old man pulled a book out of his bag and set it out on his tray table.  we smiled at each other, a sparkling moment of inter-generational mutual understanding - there’s probably a fifty-year age gap between us, and your life experience has not been anything like mine, but for the next hour we’re both gonna sit quietly and read our books.  once the flight landed and I’d taken my headphones out and was starting to pack up, he asked me what I was reading and if I was in school - my furious underlining and constant reference to the endnotes probably gave me away.  I explained what I was working on.  “When I was a young man I used to read big books like that,” he told me, cheerfully. “Now I read stuff like this.”  his book was a beautiful, illustrated Grimm’s Fairytales. 

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

I know it’s been books so far but I remember waiting for a flight in Memphis for thanksgiving break in uni and I happen to pull out my sketch book and started uselessly doodling my own characters.