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Moleskine Small Address Book
Product Description This long-standing tradition was continued by writer-traveller Bruce Chatwin who used to buy his moleskines at an old Paris stationery shop in Rue de l'Ancienne Comedie where he would always stock up before embarking on one of his journeys. Over the years he had developed a veritable ritual. Before using them he would in fact number the pages, writing on the inside his name and at least two addresses across the world, and a message promising a reward for anyone finding and returning the notebook in case of it being lost. He even suggested this method to his friend Luis Sepulveda, when he gave him a precious moleskine as a present for a journey they were planning to undertake together in Patagonia. And there was no doubt as to how precious it was, given that at the time even the last moleskine manufacturer, a small family-run firm of Tours, had discontinued production in 1986. 'Le vrai moleskine n'est plus' was the short and curt statement of the owner of the stationery shop where Chatwin had ordered one hundred before leaving for Australia. Despite having literally swept up all the Moleskines he could find, they were not enough. Now, the moleskine is back again. This silent and discreet keeper of an extraordinary tradition, which has been missing for years, has set out again on its journey. A witness to contemporary nomadism, it can once again pass from one pocket to another to continue the adventure. The sequel still waits to be written and its blank pages are ready to tell the story. Reader Reviews I discovered Moleskine notebooks in London about two months ago and bought my first, a Small Ruled Notebook, about one month ago. It's not taken me long to become a convert to these little gems, since I've now bought my second Moleskine, the small address book. The address book wasn't entirely what I was expecting, but that's a good thing. It is almost identical to the small ruled notebook, except for alphabetized tabs along the page edges. Unlike most address books, there are no neat boxes to fill in with names, street addresses, and city/state/ZIP; no separate spaces for home, work, and cell numbers. There are only ... lines. What this means, of course, is that you can record whatever information you choose to, however you choose to. A person can be tucked into one line, or have an entire page for herself. Moleskine makes a big deal about its notebooks being tools for the self-expression of the people who use them, and I was very pleasantly surprised to see that this philosophy extends even into the usually-mundane world of the address book. I didn't expect to have such a positive reaction to this product, but that's what happened. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)
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