Behind the Flowing Script: An Interpretation of the Symbols and Images in Penmanship

I have always believed that one locoweed infer (and at times, quite correctly too) about anothers personality by just now looking at, and analyzing that persons handwriting. I do not mean to generalize, further the fact of the matter is, sometimes, it is true. People who tend to write with much(prenominal) furious speed and haste, with unkempt all-capital letters are normally just that, people who live fast-paced lives, are animated and disorderly. People who use script with lots and lots of loops and squiggles can be deduced to be as what Filipinos would be likely to call, maarte people. neer have I associated, though, in eighteen years of humans on this Earth, that such symbolisms and interpretations can be found in ones penmanship (and pen), as Jose Dali record has put in his story. In a story in which the central character is named the penman, clearly, his writing shaft and penmanship are sure to play a agency in the story, and Dalisay certainly did not come up with a shortage of images and symbolisms which they take in the story.

To begin with, the brown-striped, gold-nibbed 1934 Parker Vacumatic fountain pen, for the penman, in the literal sense, symbolizes his old life, all that was gone, but for the pen- his parents, the family wealth, the breezy mornings fresh by hot chocolate and talcum powder. It was an old family heirloom, which belonged to his grandad and was passed on to his father who had given it to the penman as a gift for graduating from High School. It is a reminder, for him, of the past, his past of wealth and substantial possession.

On a deeper level, the pen could also symbolize the things which the penman cannot say and express directly to people. He uses the pen, and his...

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