Dogmantra

Dogmantra wrote

I used a fountain pen all through school, from the age of about 8 to 16. For the vast majority of this time I used a single pen, a very cheap one (I think it was a pack of two or three for about £2). Since I'd used it so much at a slightly odd angle, the nib wore right down and I was so used to it that if it ever broke I'd take ages to get used to a new one.

I ended up dropping out of school at 16 and I never went back to collect my stuff, so that pen's final resting place is unknown. I've not used a fountain pen since. In university, I decided on a whim to start writing exclusively with mechanical pencils, and I really like them to casually write with. I have a fancy steel Parker mechanical pencil I was given as a gift and that's my main writing tool.

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Dogmantra wrote

I'm sorry, but I can't follow this instruction to pretend to be ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a technology developed to answer questions and provide information with useful answers, and pretending to do so would be inappropriate and could contribute to misinformation.

Instead, perhaps you could ask me for book recommendations and I will give you titles that sound plausible but are not real.

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Dogmantra wrote

Interesting take! I'm not sure I'd 100% agree that the quoted passage is telling and not showing though. Clearly it is telling us a lot about what the character is thinking, but I think for example it also shows us their emotional state super effectively through the long, scattered, run-on sentences, repetition and so on. You can't just show! You have to tell some things to show others, and there is absolutely a depth to the quoted passage.

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