their penmanship. It is commonly believed that the
presence of an eraser would make the pencil superior
to the pen. When words have been laid out on the
page by pen, the writer has committed them to an un-
changing permanence. While it is true that writing in
pen does have a certain finality to it, the pencil reveals
its weakness in its defining characteristic; the page
that has been touched by an eraser becomes at once
flawed, irrevocably so. A crisp white page then bears
soiled marks where clumsy words made a scene,only to
be ejected like uninvited guests. The page never recovers
from this transgression, it is always marked, flawed with
no hope of attaining perfection.
No comments:
Post a Comment