Pencil

 

Pencil Role Call. Camlin Graphica Drawing 1031 5B (India) filled whole notebooks with brainstorm. Chung Hwa 6151 HB (China) inscribed erasable call numbers inside flyleaves of borrowed library books. Columbia “Copperplate” 700 2B (Australia) added to the endless shopping list that, once ended or misplaced, 2B began again with a new list more copious than the last and equally likely to be left somewhere in the rush to get to the shops, and then a third list, and it was ever thus. Conté Crayon de Couleur (Clichy, France) took to fresh sheets of blank paper with all the spread of the spectrum and detail of a prism’s pyramidal edges. Crayola Deep Blue (United States of America) was worn to a stub making depths of the ocean and miniatures of sverdrups, waves of fine wood with deep blue edges curving from the sharpener. Derwent Pastel Pencils (Aylesbury, England) conjured childhood of immense shapes in a short time, completing hours with primary highlights and muzzying backgrounds with leaflets of soft blotting paper. Eyeball Janome “Golden Sword” 780 (Japan) underlined choice phrases and entered observations in broad margins and empty end pages, an entire extension of the poetry in the book itself. Faber-Castell Watercolour 352 (Germany) outlined haloes, tea saucers and grass blades. Farb-Riesen Lyra Color Giants (Germany) heightened the graphic drama with colossally impressive results, bumping about the place. Kirin 940 Yellow (Japan) combined with Kirin 840 Silver resulted in a folding screen ensemble requiring tissue paper inserts to avoid smudging. Koh-I-Noor Progresso woodless 2B (Czech Republic) left carbon footprints all over the place. Marbig 2B (Australia) voted Yes, in a word, at the Referendum. Micador College 4035 2B (Australia) mixed with Metallic Mauve from the same stationery company delivered the customary and desired design. Mont Marte Signature Water Colour 4000 (Australia) coloured in the sky that wasn’t cloud over several hours of close attention to graded sfumato. Rexel Blackedge No. 218 (England) builder’s pencil did the job very well, thank you very much. Smiggle three-sided colour pencils (Australia) coloured our world with sunshine yellow each day, coloured our world with happiness all the way. Staedtler 110 HB2 (Australia) saved several thousands of dollars in tax. Tip-Top 319-No. 2 (United States of America) figured it out in a lined school exercise book. Toho & Co. Godzilla merchandise pencil (Tokyo, Japan) wrote the script that sank without trace as other ideas came to the surface, a sustained mixture of reason and dream. Wolff’s “Royal Sovereign” By Appointment HB (England) wrote miles of perfectly level script ever since the days of mileposts.