Tuesday, April 22, 2008

I Own A Very Odd Mechanical Pencil

In retrospect, purchasing it was sincere folly. Most importantly, it has absolutely no ability to advance the lead, meaning, at most, I have, say, two or three good paragraphs with this thing until it is no more than an elaborate metal-nib-delivery-device which can serve no other purpose besides rending paper asunder and being used to inflict small but painful stabs. Let me be explicit: it is not as though when you press the little button, the lead fails to move forward, or it is inefficient, or only moves it forward a little; there is no mechanism of any sort, whatsoever, to put in more pencil lead, or to advance the lead currently in there.

The eraser sucks too.

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