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Moleskine Notebooks and Other Addictions

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I’ve eyed them, but held myself back. Why pay $15 for a notebook when I can pay $5 for a plainer one without an inside pocket? It’s all paper.
Last week I did it. Just the little three-pack of pocket plain journals, no harm in that.
I’m hooked. I peeled off the plastic, thumbed the pages, and read ‘The history of a legendary notebook’ like it was the finest piece of writing I’d encountered in a year. Who can resist a “self-effacing keeper of an extraordinary tradition”? They are trusty, pocket-sized, European. Famous people have used them. (I’m more impressed by Van Gogh than Chatwin, but we all have different heroes.)

I don’t know how I will go to Borders without buying another every time. I must write more and sell more articles (I feel like I’m talking about prostitution or child labor whenever I say that phrase) so I can support this habit. Writing more will require more Moleskine notebooks. I will be trapped in a supply-and-demand cycle of my own making.

At least I know how to say Moleskine now.


Posted in Home Office on May 20th, 2008

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  1. weddingm Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

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