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The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting Philip Hensher
Publisher: Faber and Faber

MacLean died in Vancouver in 1976 aged 91. Philip Hensher's book The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting discusses the vanishing act of the written word plays in our world today. Jan 1, 2014 - When telling stories, Hans Christian Andersen “would simultaneously cut out paper figures to illustrate what he was saying, a kind of paper performance art,” Sansom writes. First was a trove of letters I Next was a lovely book that we carry in our shop called the Missing Ink. If anything connects this stream of historical cameos and In The Missing Ink, Hensher unearths some of the sadistic, stylish, and occasionally sympathetic attempts to teach penmanship to generations of reluctant European and American children. Dec 5, 2013 - I appreciate the look and feel of cursive writing as art. If you are thinking about tiptoeing into the world of fountain pens for the first time, or you like the possibility of owning several with different inks or nibs, you will be glad to know that modestly priced pens do not require you to sacrifice quality. Dec 3, 2012 - The Missing Ink, from British novelist Philip Hensher, makes the case that it has probably been too long. May 7, 2013 - Photos by Tonya Kehoe. The rare time I receive a handwritten note or card now, I savour By resorting to email and Facebook posts for most of our communication, I worry that our non face-to-face connections with each other are suffering from the missing ink. Mar 7, 2014 - As Philip Hensher observed in The Missing Link: The Lost Art of Handwriting, "handwriting is what registers our individuality it has been seen as the unknowing key to our souls and our innermost nature" (p. Jun 24, 2013 - Several things came together for me to suddenly lament the lost art of the handwritten missive.