Martin Amis

> Nothing compares with the fluidity of longhand. You shift things around without shifting them around — in that you merely indicate a possibility while your original thought is still there. The trouble with a computer is that what you come out with has no memory, no provenance, no history — the…

Dickinson's Coconut Cake

> Emily Dickinson's handwritten coconut cake recipe, 19th century. 📷Garrett Ziegler pic.twitter.com/YTe9EvUe0s [http://t.co/YTe9EvUe0s] — ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) April 6, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Libroantiguo/status/585019116110671873] I've visited The Emily Dickinson Archive [http://www.edickinson.org] a few times. The handwriting is…

Mozart

> “There is nothing perfect in this world except Mozart’s music” Thomas Love Peacock. 📷Ms. of the last page of Requiem pic.twitter.com/SSJvHifVuL [http://t.co/SSJvHifVuL] — ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) April 4, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Libroantiguo/status/584376095039971328] I had a piano teacher who used to tell…

A Nod to Slow Communication

Gregory Doran, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in this morning's New York Times [http://nyti.ms/1HhEMBn]. > I don’t do any of the social media. It’s the casual gossip element of it that I’m not interested in. I have…

Add to Calendar

> Happy #NationalHandwritingDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalHandwritingDay?src=hash] !! pic.twitter.com/XyXrZxcOmx [http://t.co/XyXrZxcOmx] — Archie Camps (@thebookmania) January 23, 2015 [https://twitter.com/thebookmania/status/558631638305755136]…

Write a letter...

> Australia Post: “If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter”. pic.twitter.com/7D4TckIhvd [http://t.co/7D4TckIhvd] — Brilliant Ads (@Brilliant_Ads) January 12, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Brilliant_Ads/status/554667388202151937]…