Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

- Hector Berlioz

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First time using brause nibs. 3mm

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

- G.K. Chesterton

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

- Jonathan Hule

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

-W.B. Yeats

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

- Pablo Neruda

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

- Frederick Douglass

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When sorrows come, they come not in single spies, but in battalions.

- Claudius, Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

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Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

- Carl Sagan

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Ph martin copper and jade, hunt 101

People remain what they are, even when their faces fall to pieces.

- Bertolt Brecht

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Drew the guides, wrote the quote, erased the lines, total time 15 minutes.

We can never be gods... but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

- N.K. Jemesin

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Speedball c-5, m. Graham ultramarine gouache

What manuscripts in textura prescisus would you recommend for someone ±unfamiliar with the hand?

Rhodia black paper, ph martin copper and iridescent orchid, hunt 101

Everyone knows you don’t rescue the damned, you just make a silent vow not to join them.

- Jhonen Vasquez

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Background:

I used to do calligraphy with fountain pens, namely Lamy Joy and Pilot Parallel Pen. I particularly enjoy writing small blackletter with Lamy 1.5mm nib. Another skill I’m trying to learn is writing perfectly thin lines with the thin side of a broad nib. I think it is important.

I have no prior experience with dip pens and nibs. Prior to first writing, I took the nib to the fire for less than a second. I use Leonardt #3 and Pilot Black.

The problem:

If I dip too much, excessive ink unloads on the paper, as seen on the photo. Is this to be expected? (If so, why does Leonardt sell ink reservoir?) If I’m supposed to make small dips, how small? Enough for one stroke? If more than one stroke, how do I make perfectly thin lines?

Is the problem related to the fact that I use a fountain pen ink? To justify myself on this regard, this ink is considered to be dry in the fountain pen community.

I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.

- Louisa May Alcott

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Nothing that makes us happy is an illusion.

- Johann Goethe

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