As We All Must

I don’t use wood pencils very often. Yet somehow I have ended up with five pencil sharpeners: Nakajima Jukyudo Co. 531S, KUM Automatic Long Point AS 2M, KUM Meisterwerk, Möbius + Ruppert Wedge Single-Hole, Möbius + Ruppert #610 Castor. I regret nothing. …a pencil sharpener – that highly satisfying, highly philosophical implement that goes ticonderoga-ticon-deroga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet wood, and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all must. Nabokov, Pnin