What's in a drop of ink or a quantity of lead? Pages of copied encyclopedias, grocery lists, and budget numbers? Perhaps. But perhaps this too: a secret, a key, a solution that defied a millennium, a problem to withstand an eon, a revolutionary utterance that strives to put a new face on the world, or unmask it, a figure, a form, a design that breaks the world open and spawns new ones, the infinite and the infinitesimal, freedom charging into a vacuum! ...and the soft strokes, leaves falling, a stream learning its path, a lizard's breathe, delicate lines that cradle their content between them - love, trying to find a way. I (heart) your product.
My kids also (heart) pens and pencils, as does my wife, whose last Valentine's present was an expensive pen. But none of us (heart) a pencil as much as Leonard Read.
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