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100 1 $aHensher, Philip.
245 14 $aThe missing ink :$bthe lost art of handwriting (and why it still matters) /$cPhilip Hensher.
260 $aLondon :$bMacmillan,$c2012.
300 $a274 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-271).
505 2 $aThere's nothing wrong with my handwriting, they just need to pay someone who can read it -- A history of handwriting, from string onwards -- What's my handwriting like? -- Out of the billiard halls, courtesy of copperplate -- Vere Foster and A.N. Palmer -- Dickens -- Print and manuscript and ball and stick -- "Une question de writing" -- Hitler's handwriting -- Preparing the boys for death : the invention of italic -- Ink -- Pens -- Marion Richardson -- Reading your mind -- Vitativeness -- Not being able to read : Proust -- Gissa job, Siegmund -- Biros and not-biros -- My italic nightmare -- What is to be done.
520 $a'The wisest and wittiest argument imaginable for the preservation of handwriting. I have learnt so much, and by it have been so happily entertained, that I am compelled to recommend it to everyone.' Diana Athill The simple pleasure of picking up a pen and writing is a skill that has existed for thousands of years - but that skill is slowly dying. Where once we would have reached for a pen and paper to commit our innermost thoughts to a diary, to send a letter home or to slip a note to a loved one, instead we now stare at tiny screens, typing with our thumbs. And all that typing looks the same. The Missing Ink is a book about the characters who shaped our handwriting, and how it in turn shaped us. From Victorian idealists, preaching the moral worth of italic copperplate, to great modern educational reformists such as Marion Richardson, throughout history the style in which we write has influence the way we learn, behave and communicate. But this is also a book about the physical act itself: about the pots of ink, treasured pens and chewable Biros that we used to take for granted, and whether the style of our writing really does reveal anything about our true selves. Hugely entertaining, witty and thought-provoking, The Missing Ink is itself a love letter to the warmest of technologies, and the place it still has in our lives.
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