Since my graduate student days in Austin Texas to my recent years so close to her (Rhinebeck is just a few hours from Rochester) we carried on a correspondence that, alas, petered out due to my recent drop off in writing letters generally. We discussed almost everything, but especially, limits hard science can set on some science fiction tropes and constructs, Hindu mythology and cosmogony, and of course, fountain pens, which were always in the background. I was tickled pink how just about any pen with or without flex would be written the same way with her characteristic hand…. If she did not tell you you would not know she had changed pens :-) Life is short! I should have taken her up on her offer to drive by and have evening tea on a summers afternoon….
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