When you use ink, in a fountain pen, there is no erasing, no way to cover your mistakes.

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If he is buying a fountain pen, there are several factors to consider.

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The title pages and chapter-heads featured the swirling calligraphy of Professor Lal himself, done with a Sheaffer fountain pen.

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He also resisted other forms of contemporary technology and convenience, holding out against the cell phone and e-mail and continuing to write his opinions and dissents in longhand, using a fountain pen.

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But I notice you have a fountain pen, a ballpoint pen in front of you, and occasionally you will just touch it and look at it and it appears as if you're focusing yourself.

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Instead, how about telling how the vice president of marketing at one company, an old-school executive who still uses a fountain pen and hates computers, learned how to use the software in five minutes?

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