Good for him! I haven't used anything but a fountain pen in the last 17 years. It even improves my utterly illegible handwriting. Sam would be proud. George Robinson On 10/14/2016 2:31 PM, John R. Pascal wrote: > As I type this, my Writings of Mark Twain class is taking a vocabulary/biography test on Mr. Clemens. > > One senior brought in a fountain pen with a bottle of ink in honor of our hero. > > Everyone laughed, but looked on with growing envy as he started to write his name. > > Of course, he was pressing the nib a little too hard and at too sharp of an angle in order to write smoothly and swiftly. > > I pointed out the proper way to hold it and he happily exclaimed, “Well dog my cats (Twain term thanks to Kent Rasmussen’s glossary) this is a real game-changer!” > > Life is good! > > John > John R. Pascal, M.B.A., M.A. > Teacher of 9th, 11th Grade English, & The Writings of Mark Twain > Seton Hall Preparatory School > Contributing Author to Mark Twain and Youth, available at Amazon and Bloomsbury Academic Publishing by the links below: > > https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twain-Youth-Studies-Writings/dp/1474225381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471631434&sr=8-1&keywords=mark+twain+and+youth <https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twain-Youth-Studies-Writings/dp/1474225381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471631434&sr=8-1&keywords=mark+twain+and+youth> > > http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mark-twain-and-youth-9781474225380/ <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mark-twain-and-youth-9781474225380/> > > > Review-- > “The very theme of youth is a crucial one in Twain ... the list of authors who have agreed to write for this collection provides a kind of who's who of the very best critics working in Twain Studies at the present moment. This is a book which I would eagerly anticipate reading, as would any scholar with an interest in Twain.” ―Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham University, UK > -- Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker. -- Amarillo Slim