This summer, Larry Stone of Oklahoma City finished his comprehensive exam for a Masters in Liberal Arts in Philosophy. He did it by writing about 12 pages a day, in a very legible hand (see photo below) for three days. I asked him if the pen affects how he writes. He said, “I write more slowly, have to think further ahead. If I make mistakes, I have to do another draft. It changes the kind of sentences that I use. They are more straight forward, with fewer outtakes and tangential, because I have to focus on getting from A to B before the idea leaves me. There is no such thing as a quick aside.”