Comments on: QOTW:How bad is your paper fetish? http://bwh.me/blog/2009/10/01/qotwhow-bad-is-your-paper-fetish/ Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The OTHER Sam http://bwh.me/blog/2009/10/01/qotwhow-bad-is-your-paper-fetish/comment-page-1/#comment-101 The OTHER Sam Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:51:10 +0000 http://bwh.me/blog/?p=285#comment-101 It's so freeing to find people that do the EXACT SAME thing I do! Except I'm probably down at the 'junkie' level, because I'm all for the cheap fix. Rhodia? Clairefontaine? Weren't they historical figures? Mistresses of King Louis XIV or something? I'm down with, you know, Mead, Norcom, and that freebie steeno from the company touting it's community service for the year. (Stack of '08s! Woo hoo!!) The venerable G2 loves them all... But seriously - what fills your volumes of notebooks? I have a legion of them on standby, but thus far they have succeeded in fending off the Pentel division staged in my top drawer... It’s so freeing to find people that do the EXACT SAME thing I do! Except I’m probably down at the ‘junkie’ level, because I’m all for the cheap fix. Rhodia? Clairefontaine? Weren’t they historical figures? Mistresses of King Louis XIV or something? I’m down with, you know, Mead, Norcom, and that freebie steeno from the company touting it’s community service for the year. (Stack of ’08s! Woo hoo!!) The venerable G2 loves them all… But seriously – what fills your volumes of notebooks? I have a legion of them on standby, but thus far they have succeeded in fending off the Pentel division staged in my top drawer…

]]> By: dianeb http://bwh.me/blog/2009/10/01/qotwhow-bad-is-your-paper-fetish/comment-page-1/#comment-67 dianeb Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:18:59 +0000 http://bwh.me/blog/?p=285#comment-67 I'm sure you mean fetish in the sense of attributing religious or mystical qualities to inanimate objects. The word is used somewhat jarringly in a P.D. James Inspector Dalgliesh novel where the patients as a psychiatric clinic all walk around holding their fetishes (and there's an amazing scene where one of the doctors describes to Dalgliesh--a detective inpecrot!--taking a patient on a (legal) LSD trip as a way of getting around self-imposed censors to the "truth"--the book was written around 1962 or so, and it shows). So yes, when I'm ripping through my Rhodias or petting my Piccadillys, I'm just acknowledging my deity, Our Lady of the Clairefontaine. :) I’m sure you mean fetish in the sense of attributing religious or mystical qualities to inanimate objects. The word is used somewhat jarringly in a P.D. James Inspector Dalgliesh novel where the patients as a psychiatric clinic all walk around holding their fetishes (and there’s an amazing scene where one of the doctors describes to Dalgliesh–a detective inpecrot!–taking a patient on a (legal) LSD trip as a way of getting around self-imposed censors to the “truth”–the book was written around 1962 or so, and it shows).

So yes, when I’m ripping through my Rhodias or petting my Piccadillys, I’m just acknowledging my deity, Our Lady of the Clairefontaine. :)

]]> By: Sam http://bwh.me/blog/2009/10/01/qotwhow-bad-is-your-paper-fetish/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Sam Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:12:48 +0000 http://bwh.me/blog/?p=285#comment-66 No, you're quite right to use the word fetish, I suspect it's something I suffer from (or embrace, depending on your point of view). I can regularly be found doing exactly what you detail in your post - couldn't possibly count all the notebooks & paper lying around here, suffice to say I have a 4 drawer filing cabinet full, and that's only about half the collection! No, you’re quite right to use the word fetish, I suspect it’s something I suffer from (or embrace, depending on your point of view). I can regularly be found doing exactly what you detail in your post – couldn’t possibly count all the notebooks & paper lying around here, suffice to say I have a 4 drawer filing cabinet full, and that’s only about half the collection!

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