[Quiet Man Cometh]

Arise!

No really, I miss this thread. Re-read a lot of it last night. Must make up for some accidental repetition. (You, too, Suze!)

From the book I'm currently reading:

"He'd do alright as long as he didn't have to pick up a pen. The skinny little implements made him nervous. If he walked into a room, he knew where pens and pencils hid in drawers or behind cupboard doors. A bit of charcoal from the fire didn't bother him unless someone had made a mark with the black lump. And a paintbrush was just a paintbrush unless someone strayed from merely whitewashing walls and wrote on the faded siding."

- Donita K. Paul One Realm Beyond


Not necessarily "great literature" but as someone who is almost never without a pen, I find this passage fascinating.