Quill and Ink

Whatever happened to a nice feathered quill and a pot of ink as the medium for writing? Why was such a beautiful means of creation abandoned? Convenience, of course. And spelling. If you weren’t an impeccable speller in the days before word processors and spell check then you would be ridiculed beyond belief. It is true that typos occur, even in this advanced technological age but they can be easily be rectified. But if beauty were more important than convenience for horrible spellers then we would still be subject to the magnificence that a nib that has been dipped in a well of ink can create when it touches the page. Even with the vast choices that are available in the proffered word processor of the age, most likely some form of Word, they still don’t hold a candle to the long-hand style of writing that was once so popular. But as time goes on, it’s become important to leave the outdated behind and look to the future. My favorite phrase, thanks in part to Douglas Adams who I learned it from, is applicable here: “Resistance is futile”. And indeed it is.