In "Death is Coming", Lee Ji-so, who wants to become a writer played by Ko Yunzhen, said to her boyfriend Cui Yi, who is not dead and dead, in the boutique pen exhibition room of the bookstore:
Some people say that if you become a writer in the future, it will be better to have a fountain pen. ”
This episode reminds me that before I resigned, my colleague gave me a complete set of pen calligraphy and a gift: I hope you will continue to work hard. Because I quit my last job because I wanted to be a writer.
My colleague's good hope was only realized by a Korean drama.
The fountain pen in Korean is called the fountain pen (fountain pen in English). It's all more meaningful than Chinese. It can be understood that Fountain Pen represents a gushing ink and also symbolizes the source of inspiration for the outburst; And the 10,000 years is not only to show that the life of the pen is very long and strong, but also seems to symbolize the road to becoming a writer, which is very long.
In an era of short** and voice messages, I don't want to dwell on why I still want to write word by word, but this is what I should do and the only thing I can do.
Of course, very few people actually write with a pen, including when I write this text, which should actually be called "typing this text". The technological innovation of computer typing and writing has made pen writing more than a "symbol".
Like Lee Ji-so, who later became a writer, she was actually typing on her laptop when she wrote, and when Choi Yi-jae (played by Lee Ji-hui), who had come back from the dead and became a model Jang Jian-woo, reappeared in front of her and gave her Lee Ji-so's book to autograph, the fountain pen that Choi Yi bought for her as a gift before her death was taken out and held by Lee Ji-so to sign her name on the title page of the book.
Another epiphany: my colleague gave me a signed pen (calligraphy set).
A high-quality fountain pen is a delicate and expensive writing instrument, before the calligraphy set fountain pen given by a colleague - a colleague gave a Kaweco calligrapy set writing series imported from Germany - I have a Lamy Lingmei fountain pen, which is also a gift from a friend. And going back further, when I really used a fountain pen to write as a student, it was a hero pen given to me by my grandmother after winning the first prize in the Olympiad in the fourth grade of primary school - I was deeply impressed by this hero pen, the metal silver cap, and the plastic pen body is very similar to the current Kaweco mint blue fountain pen, which is a faint, green and blue color. Later, in the fifth grade, this fountain pen won me the honor of first place in the school's hard pen calligraphy.
In this way, the fountain pen has a special meaning for me in this era when there is not much handwriting, carrying emotion and even glory.
So I made up my mind to write and cultivate my character, and if I could pick up a pen and copy some words every few days, it should be a very handy meditation method. Since the Kaweco writing series is more suitable for signing and carrying books (the four nibs are 1.).1mm、1.5mm、1.9mm、2.3mm, compared with daily writing, it will be much thicker, the nib of the fountain pen is based on f, f is fine; There is also a finer EF, which is extra-fine), and in contrast, the Lamy pen I own (with an F nib) is not as smooth as the Kaweco in terms of writing smoothness and pen grip, so I bought a Kaweco Perkeo series with an F nib, a Kaweco Classic Skyline with an EF nib, and a replaceable nib M, which is the medium. Other brands of fountain pens have either not been exposed to in recent years, or ** make me stay away.
Although typing on computers and mobile phones occupies my daily life, I am still "old-school" and often write by hand, but I mostly use mechanical pencils and ballpoint pens. After using the above pens to write again, I found that the fountain pen is really a tool that can write words beautifully.
Today, I am self-taught in Korean, and I have worked in English for the past ten years, but I am more familiar with Chinese characters, including because I need to meet many colleagues in Taiwan and Hong Kong in my past work, so I am also very familiar with traditional Chinese. So I used the tip of the Kaweco Classic Skyline M pen to copy a short sentence on scratch paper, in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Korean and English. Then I realized that I can write the best traditional Chinese characters, not because of anything else, but because of the full number of strokes and the appearance of things. My generation can actually read through traditional Chinese characters, but not even younger ones. I think I should also have a plan this year, in addition to being able to read, I will also practice writing traditional Chinese characters.
Traditional Chinese characters are copied from the Taiwanese version of the traditional Chinese book "Becoming a Real Man", which tells about the Three Forks Mountain incident in Taiwan after World War II. Involved in helping the U.S. military, the defeated Japanese army, and the aborigines of Taiwan).
At the end of this little story about the fountain pen, I want to go back to "The Time of Death is Coming". Li Zhixiu, who has become a writer, took out a fountain pen to sign a book for Zhang Jianyu, and Cui Yi, whose soul fell into Zhang Jianyu's body, recognized the fountain pen. On the night when Lee Ji-so said "Some people say that if you become a writer in the future, it would be better to have a fountain pen" and took a fancy to a fountain pen, Choi Yi bought the fountain pen and asked the counter to help him engrave "Lee Ji-so writer" on the pen. Because he believes that his girlfriend's dream will definitely come true.
I also later discovered that Kaweco's official channels can be engraved with customization. I also want to one day be able to inscribe "Blue Rejuvenation Writer" on one of my pens. As in the past, I also believe that this dream of mine will come true.
On the way home is the New Year