I used to love pens with real ink, too...
damn computers...
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:23 PM, martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
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> > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > But it has to be a joke... right?
> >>
> >
> > I imagine that depends on whether anyone sends him money.
>
> I imagine that a pencil, the labor to sharpen it, package it with it's
> shavings and a certificate of authenticity, would be a bargain at the
> fifteen dollar price.
>
> The print option is interesting, but there's not much information, other
> than that they are signed limited editions of fifty. At twenty five dollars
> for an edition of fifty, is only twelve fifty for a sold out edition, and
> there's shipping and studio rent. I imagine one could come up with a labor
> theory of value (of sorts) given that info.
>
> For my part, I don't like number two pencils. I find them too hard for my
> taste, but that's not the reason I dislike them. They are ubiquitous, and
> they make it difficult to find a number one pencil. I like a dark
> smudge-able line.
>
> martin
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