Nothing is quite as complicated as thinking "What should be written down with at least some form of clarity?" One author - Francis Bacon - said, "Writing makes an exact mind."
More than one person might have said, "Trying to marketh it down doth make a slow and tangled mind...who knocked over the inkstand?"
Our sixth grade class had desks with wooden desk tops that included a place for the ink bottle. That was around 1959, and the tops were well carved. We ached to have individual ink bottles and insisted that we needed that tool. But "No! Too messy! This is1959!" We soon had cartridge pens that linked ink and soon they were banished.
We used ballpoint pens and made them last until the computer age crept into place. My parents were born around 1910, so they had a lot of stories about the good old days on the farm, before electricity, so there was nothing we could top about those days - especially the Great Depression.
I wonder where written books will go from here.
