Comments on: Another Curvy Mid-Century Pleasure http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/ "it must give pleasure" -- Wallace Stevens Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shoplet.com http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-12634 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:23:59 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-12634 It’s a lovely poem.

]]> By: Aphra Behn http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-3553 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:25:13 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-3553 Here’s a present for you Lily:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/pm/galleries/801/71/#gallery801

]]> By: Another Modernist Masterpiece « BlogLily http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2855 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:33:37 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2855 [...] A few days ago, all those things, with the exception of nuclear conflagration and time travel, happened. (Which is good, because Orinda is where my friend Debby’s from, and where Maria and Lisa and Lisa’s lovely daughter in law and nice son with the new baby all can be found!) I took my camera out and pointed it in the general direction of the sky and there was the bridge, a modernist masterpiece if I’ve ever seen one. And no, it won’t sharpen a pencil or dispense tape, like its younger siblings (the ones that have been featured here for the last couple of weeks.) It is a stirring sight — you come out of a tunnel and there they are, these huge, beautiful spans for which the word “soaring” is actually accurate. [...]

]]> By: bloglily http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2826 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:21:03 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2826 Hello Q — I so love the hallowed ground — and I’m very happy about that Staedtler having such a fine home.

]]> By: qazse http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2251 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:15:52 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2251 BL fine fine choice of poem.

I like the sharpener you posted. I can see it situated in several of my childhood classrooms. Like some office supply tabernacle it was always located on hallowed ground. Shift many years forward: nothing beats my Staedtler. Thank you again!

]]> By: bloglily http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2091 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:23:27 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2091 Who’d have guessed that for so many of us the pencil sharpener would turn out to be the madeleine of our childhoods? I’ve so enjoyed reading all these memories. And the comments on Roethke. And the tales of stationery supplies (and laptops) we have loved and struggled with.

]]> By: (un)relaxeddad http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2089 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:08:51 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2089 I remember that very model – it’s taken me straight back to infant school, Mrs Valardi and sharpening pencils. I remember it as so big and solid. It felt like if you push hard enough and turn fast enough, it could just swallow up the whole pencil in a trice like a log into a wood chipper. Mrs Valardi seemed very old but probably wasn’t much older than I am now. I loved sharpening pencils. I loved infant, school, actually. Read every book in the building, then they had to send out for more. Or at least, that’s the way my parents told it.

]]> By: charlotteotter http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2083 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:36:22 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2083 It is beautiful, that pencil sharpener. And I too love pencils and all stationery. However, my love for these things has been totally eclipsed by my love for my new Apple laptop. Don’t ask me what model it is, but it’s white, rounded, sleek, sophisticated and clever. I aspire to its gorgeousness.

]]> By: Dark Orpheus http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2072 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:18:19 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2072 Good choice. It’s a lovely poem, and so appropriate for an office worker staring at the office stationary at the desk.

]]> By: healingmagichands http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2071 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:27:11 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2071 I have a lovely old pencil sharpener sitting on my desk. It is pink. Thanks for the poem.

]]> By: Danielle http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2063 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:22:00 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2063 Lovely pencil sharpener!

]]> By: patricia http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2061 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:22:08 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2061 What an amazing poem! Thanks so much for sharing.

And oh yes, those beautiful, klunky pencil sharpeners, and the funny noises they would make when you tried to sharpen your writing instrument. And the agony of trying to sharpen a tiny nub of a pencil! I was a bitterly shy kid, and so walking up in front of the class (because the sharpener was always close to the teacher’s desk) was always a sweaty, gut-wrenching experience for me. And it seemed to me that I used the sharpener more often than other kids, due to my obsessive drawing habits during class. That beast, how it did mock me!

]]> By: Halloween thoughts « Archies Archive http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2060 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:51:43 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2060 [...] BlogLily has been posting some wonderful pictures of 1950’s office equipment. I have been drawn back into thinking of my life in the ’50s. Well, late 50’s, early 60’s. As I was leaving school and moving into the workforce. [...]

]]> By: Kristin Ohlson http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2058 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:35:27 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2058 I love those old pencil sharpeners– the look of them as well as the action. I remember whirring the handle so fast that I expected the whole thing to smoke, then pulling out the pencil– so sharp I could go to war with it.

Edwinek– comparing Roethke to Dilbert? Funny and weirdly apt!

]]> By: archiearchive http://bloglily.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2056 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:53:56 +0000 http://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/another-curvy-mid-century-pleasure/#comment-2056 Even more beautiful to me was the mechanism inside those wonderful pencil sharpeners. Those “duplicate grey standard faces” have been replaced by media promoted duplicate blonde stick-insects and by duplicate half-shaved blonde six-packs. We seem to have a speciel (no, not a typo) need for uniformity. Then again, I could just be jealous because I am out of time. I’m off to haunt an antiques shop for some therapy.

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