Manila Bulletin’s I section assistant editor Yonina Chan interviews Chicago-based Armand Frasco about Moleskinerie, the fan site of the Moleskine, the notebook used by legendary personalities such as Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Bruce Chatwin, and Vincent Van Gogh:

In this digital age, we have almost lost the immediacy of putting words (and images) to paper. Keyboards and light pens have gotten in the way. . . .The world runs too fast these days. The physical act of writing (or creating on paper) requires time. Take it a step further and you’re in a different realm. That is the beauty of writing, slowly.

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