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The limited edition Hobbit-themed Moleskine notebooks. (Images from Design Taxi)

We shall haunt the bookstoresesss till they sssurface.

The 2013 Star Wars, Little Prince and Peanuts daily diary/planners by Moleskine have landed.

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We are The Keepers of the Dying Cursive. We should do more handwritten posts.

Nabokov wrote his novels on index cards.

About six months ago, I realised that I had no idea what the handwriting of a good friend of mine looked like. I had known him for over a decade, but somehow we had never communicated using handwritten notes. He had left voice messages for me, emailed me, sent text messages galore. But I don’t think I had ever had a letter from him written by hand, a postcard from his holidays, a reminder of something pushed through my letter box. I had no idea whether his handwriting was bold or crabbed, sloping or upright, italic or rounded, elegant or slapdash.

It hit me that we are at a moment when handwriting seems to be about to vanish from our lives altogether. At some point in recent years, it has stopped being a necessary and inevitable intermediary between people – a means by which individuals communicate with each other, putting a little bit of their personality into the form of their message as they press the ink-bearing point on to the paper. It has started to become just one of many options, and often an unattractive, elaborate one.

Read Philip Hensher on Why Handwriting Matters.

We’re taking a short break from our usual Moleskine journals (We’ve filled up two this year so far) to try the Ciak Duo. Or as we like to call it, the Schizo.

It’s fuchsia on one side, but flip it over.

It’s also acid green.

The elastic is in the middle. Other color combinations: red and black, lime and yellow, brown and beige, black and white.

Half of it is plain paper, the other half lined. Creamy, thick paper, high rag content, especially good for drawing.

Ciak leather-bound notebooks are handmade in Florence. They’re called “Ciak” after the sound of the elastic hitting a surface.

The medium-sized Ciak Duo retails for Php1,400 at Fully Booked outlets. For inquiries call Garden Barn at (02)8331080.

Another thing we do with our Moleskine notebook.

Sorry about the previous post, a preview of our column which won’t appear till next week.

So we made the insects using Muji’s Lego bricks and paper set. You don’t need to get the set, you can make them with your old Lego bricks, paper and a one-hole puncher.

In other news: We have it on good authority that despite his accident in Nasugbu where he was competing in a triathlon, Fernando Zobel is still handsome. Repeat, still handsome, so no need to light candles for the safety of his face.