Diana Athill
Stick to the Script
The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters
By Philip Hensher
Macmillan 274pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
We don’t have to look far to see how rare it is, nowadays, for people to communicate by putting pen to paper. It is not only those born into the computer age who don’t think of doing it. Even very old people, including me, have friends whose handwriting they have never seen. We all communicate, of course (tweet tweet tweet, and yack yack yack on the mobile), but not by pen and ink. Does it matter?
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