Sorry for any inconvenience. I had to do some surgery on the weblogData.root database. I was playing with the outliner (Don’t fuss so, Allan!) and accidentally turned post 964 from a table into a string, and when I tried publishing the next post, the effect caused an error which cascaded to any page it was a component of, including the day (23 January), month archive, the home page, the category pages, and the category monthly archives. Yeow. So if you saw the [Macro Expansion Error] instead of what you were looking for, that’s what happened; and if you did not, well, all the better.
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There was nothing better on the earth that could write, he had often thought, than his Parker Vacumatic fountain pen, a brown-striped, gold-nibbed model made in 1934. It wasn’t him but the pen, gliding across the foolscap, filling in the vastness of the page with words that may not have meant all that much but which looked beautiful because of the personality and the infinite variety of their shape.

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The pen pushed him on to one word and another, creating a sudden and inescapable intimacy less between himself and So-and-So but between him and the page, and he mailed these letters off almost as an afterthought, and at that with a twinge of sorrow, because he would never see them again.

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