Sunday, August 8, 2021

Schoolboyish

Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Antibes, 1931:

After the café, work and note-taking resumed, broken up every so often by excited, schoolboyish visits to the stationery shop, where Zweig and Roth indulged without restraint their passion for pens, notebooks, pencils, and special ink.

George Prochnik, The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World (New York: Other Press, 2014).
Zweig’s ink of choice: violet.

comments: 4

The Crow said...

What is your favorite ink color, Michael?

Michael Leddy said...

Aurora Black. Darker than others, at least to my eye.

Fresca said...

From your obit for your dad:
"On Saturday mornings he would take us to Alan’s Stationery for art supplies."

Condolences on the death of your dad six years ago, last Friday. Six years is nothin'.

Michael Leddy said...

Yep — I didn’t even think of a connection. The “supplies” gene runs deep. Thanks, Fresca.