Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe (2018)
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Well, I had to use one when I was at school (I'm 53). I do note that the headmaster of my prep school (British - aged 10-13) advocated those smart new fibre tipped things.
He (head) was formally a WWII Artillery officer - Major - lost an eye in action in Africa.
He (and the rest of the staff) also taught us lot how to use cutlery etc but still he insisted that a fibre tipped pen was the future. As it turns out, Biros (ball point pens), replaced most ink related writing and not fibre tips.
I doubt you use a "sharpie" in favour of an ink pen.
I do enjoy using an edged pen and calligraphy in general but mostly can't be arsed these days. It might become a lost art but I'm not too sure we will have lost too much. It is simply an art form and art is art or arse.
Art or otherwise, I take joy in writing with them, as do you, I suspect, with your writing implements of choice. That is all that matters in my book :)