blue fountain pen ink, pencil

Ingredients

blue fountain pen ink, pencil

Evidence

"the effect of the ingredients on the pages have, on occasion, poetically run the blue fountain pen ink or smudged entries as they were written near a hot stove."

Remarks

The manuscript contains entries written in either blue fountain pen ink or pencil, which were the author's mother's preferred utensils (p. 75). The blue ink specifically pays homage to the author’s grandfather, as the mother used a blue fountain pen just as her late father did (p. 82). The ink is observed to be sensitive to the environment of the kitchen, showing signs of running and smudging when in proximity to moisture or heat from a stove (p. 73). Some entries are noted to be fading or yellowing over time (p. 73, 82).