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...wanted was my old rollerball back, and luckily she would have me. What, then, is the new It pen for the masses? I can't say; I have no eyes for others. She keeps me in line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of the It Pen: Two Writers' Reflections | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...Imagine my disappointment. I had found the new 'It' pen: the Rebecca Moss Sport Pen. She gushed with ink as liberally as my trusty fine-tipped Pilot Precise V7 Rolling Ball, but Rebecca offered me something new-an upgrade in styling, heft and refillability. She had everything I wanted. The pen came packaged in a space-age pod container with sound-proofing foam to cradle the instrument. Inside: a pen with an elegant, athletic look. A masterpiece of German engineering, the pen's blue plastic housing had a smooth sandpaper tactility. I thought I had found love at first write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of the It Pen: Two Writers' Reflections | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...then our relationship soured. The "chrome" crowning the pen cap began to peel, revealing the shoddy, plasticky truth-she had been sheathed in a pseudo-chrome laminate. She was living a lie, and I wanted nothing to do with that $27 flake. Back to the store she went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of the It Pen: Two Writers' Reflections | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...stroke for sport, but will have nothing to do with the UT Montblanc-posing scene, consider the FM 'It' Pen 1999, the Muji...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of the It Pen: Two Writers' Reflections | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...Trumping the shrink-wrapped tees at Old Navy, the Muji presents pen as commodity. The pen shaft resembles superfluous packaging, but the Muji carries no extras; the pen is packaging. Form, function...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of the It Pen: Two Writers' Reflections | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

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