No.. I am not gone but I just have some many other things to do these days... I think my desk can attest to it.. and my fascination with fountain pens have yet to abate.....
"The common reader differs from the critic and the scholar. She is worse educated, and nature has not gifted her so generously. She reads for her own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others. Above all, she is guided by an instinct to create for herself, out of whatever odds and ends she can come by, some kind of whole."
--Virginia Woolf