I love blues of all sorts and this is absolutely one of my favorites. Sargasso sea seems to have about the same amount of sheen, but it is more of a gold sheen. Myth, as i use it in this context, implies a force in the universe that is untamed and untamable, but which subsists on paradox. If its slow drying time and low smearresistance make majestic blue a. On top of the vibrant color, the ink has a great red. Diamine fountain pen ink 80ml sargasso sea based out of liverpool, england, diamine has a following of loyal fans and a long tradition of manufacturing beautiful fountain pen inks. Diamine majestic blue is one of my favorites, and i find it to be fairly close to. Subsequently, the book has become a theoretical touchstone for examining interracial life in the caribbean islands post emancipation. Today we have diamine mediterranean blue in the blog. Ink swabs for comparison, left to right top to bottom for rss. Wide sargasso sea sparknotes literature guidenook book. I ordered so more ink a few weeks ago, and came across a sample of sargasso sea, which looked like a bold blue. Wide sargasso sea and the color purple essay 864 words.
In this video we visit the 3rd blue in that made the viewers choice series panel this month november 2018. The seaweed is bright orange, but the sea itself is a deep. Diamine fountain pen ink 80ml sargasso sea wonder pens. The nakaya is fucking beautiful, but the looks of the pro gear are also great, i have the murdered out black version. Sargasso sea, majestic blue and blue pearl offer the best shading with much of the rest being rather flat. Page 1 of 2 whats the bestperforming blue from diamine. It is a very saturated blue, so dont expect any shading, and sometimes there are hard starts i. Enchanted ocean and shimmering seas are a little harder to categorise like the sea, they keep changing colour as the light shifts. If its slow drying time and low smear resistance make majestic blue a. This is a bottle that i picked up from bert at bertrams inkwell in the dc area over christmas. Sailor tsutaya books ginza, edo iro kabuki yakusha no masu hanairo, blue. Diamine sargasso sea ink diamine collection available. Ive got the blues blue inks in my collection the london.
What do you get when lost meets mean girls, sprinkled with a little night of the living dead, pirates of the caribbean, and the three star wars prequels. I originally inked up my twsbi 580 al ef nib which is a very fine extra fine and got going. The sea is covered with patches of seaweed called sargassum. Rich blue, some see teal in it, however, it is a good bright blue in my books. Jean rhyss wide sargasso sea a companion to the british. The culture of death and magic was widespread in the history of jamaica and can be further shown in jean rhys wide sargasso sea.
In many parts of the novel, the concept of death is shown with people who act like zombies, who are alive and dead, and ghosts, who are neither alive nor dead. Also, without the sheen, majestic is more of a dark blue with a hint if turquoise, wheras sargasso has more purple. Diamine ink 80ml bottle buy any 3 get nib cleaner free. Project muse race, creole, and national identities in rhys. Ive got the blues blue inks in my collection the london parchment. The first way was that the house of antoinette and her family were fired by exslaves and her family were also afraid by the exslaves in the case of this story. Review and water drop test of this fountain pen ink. It is a waterbased nontoxic ink, making it a safe option for vintage pens in particular.
I like sheen in an ink so i just ordered the majestic blue and it hasnt got here yet, but i like the color of the s. I find that for a blue ink, sapphire blue still looks really nice on standard copy paper. Diamine brand ink has a long and rich history, dating back to 1864. Mar 10, 2015 today we have diamine mediterranean blue in the blog.
Welcome to the world of wide sargasso sea, with its blend of twisted romance and island mystery, occult magic and literary selfreference. Rochester is the man jane eyre marries in the novel jane eyre. Its a heavily saturated medium blue that really jumps off the page. I have chosen to work with the different settings in wide sargasso sea, by jean rhys because while reading the book i tried to imagine those different places, especially those in the caribbean countries. And please dont ask why i get diamine mediterranean blue although i have tons of blue inks. Ive come to hate majestic blue for its stickiness, and im looking ignorantly at sargasso. In wide sargasso sea, jean rhys explores the life of mr. The sargasso sea colour of this ink is not overly saturated and thus has a beautiful vibrancy to it. To compare it to other diamine inks, this is about as pure blue as midnight, but lighter, and about as dark as sargasso sea, but more pure blue than blurple. As postmodern historical novels dramatizing slavery and its legacy in the anglophone caribbean islands, jean rhyss wide sargasso sea 1966 and caryl phillipss cambridge 1993 problematize englishness as a national and cultural identity that may or may not be dependent upon race and also reject the creole as an identity subordinate in status to that of european. It has quickly become one of the most popular and soughtafter brands around. For the exhibition, each participating artist was asked by the curator to read wide sargasso sea and select characters or themes to explore visually in a range of mediums.
I like it because, while it is the colour some makers standard blue inks eventually fade to a rather rude trick, it is at least honest about its paleness and doesnt get paler over time. Rochester is a british man, antoinette is a creole caribbeanmore i think the most important way to think about this novel is in a postcolonial context. Jul, 2016 diamine oxford blue ink is the latest shade of dark blue ink from diamine ink company. Bullet journaling fountain pen sketching lefty approved novel writing. Supplying analog writing instruments and accessories since 1938. Glenns pens is all about the writing experience with fountain pens and ink about. Exploration of madness in jean rhyss wide sargasso sea the. Diamine sargasso sea or majestic blue which has more sheen. Why, after years of having to use blue ink would you stick with it, and not splash out.
Its quite a sheen monster too on tomoe river paper. Blue flame and blue pearl are fairly traditional royal blues, with gold or silver sparkles respectively. Diamine cult pens deep dark blue, diamine sargasso sea, and sailor. In my experience, majestic blue has more sheen and its a very nice red. Both majestic blue and shocking blue are a bit brighter than oxford blue. The shimmering inks, not shaken, feel a little dry. Each swab is on white clairefontaine pollen 210g paper using a glass dip pen and a qtip swab. The ending of wide sargasso sea was separated by three ways and the three ways were included different concepts. Wide sargasso sea sparknotes literature guide by jean rhys making the reading experience fun. Known as the northern atlantic subtropical gyre, the region is defined by the ocean currents that surround it rather than by land boundaries. Reading and reflecting from wide sargasso sea to jane eyre through a glass, darkly. It was okay in the medium nib, but when i moved to the broad stub it bled through. Diamine sargasso sea or majestic blue which has more. Third generation familyowned store based in little rock, arkansas.
This diamine sargasso sea ink is suitable for any brand of fountain pens, making it a convenient purchase too. The color is good, and it looks better on regular papers than it does on the coated papers like rhodia because the sheen is so heavy on the fancy paper that it makes the blue difficult to see. Daniel biro things of the aimless wanderer original soundtrack. The problem is majestic blue doesnt always behave itself on copy paper.
What is wide sargasso sea about and why should i care. Although similar to other diamine ink colors, such as diamine blue black, diamine denim and diamine twilight, it probably is one of the deepest and darkest diamine blue fountain pen inks of all of them all. Majestic blue is a deep, rich, beautiful blue almost a pure blue, but perhaps with a slight, very slight hint of red. Diamine fountain pen ink 80ml 80ml sargasso sea fountain pen ink. Rhys manages to do this in a poetic, seductive, and even concise way, as the novel is only 192 pages.
Lapis blue and shimmering seas also look rather dark. Wide sargasso sea by jean rhys, 9780140860597, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Noodlers baystate blue, diamine majestic blue, diamine sapphire blue. Myth teaches us that sovereign gods and sovereign institutions are partial, partial in. The color purple, wide sargasso sea and the handmaids tale explores the concept of the power of women and gender roles submerged in a patriarchal atmosphere. Order the diamine majestic blue fountain pen ink from canadas independent online pen, paper and ink shop. Diamine sargasso sea is a rich, blue ink named after a region in the atlantic ocean. Mike was trained by his grandfather, dad, and uncle to continue the family business of all things pens, inks, and paper.
These are among the shops favourite inks owed to its wellbehaved moderate flow, wide variety of available colours, and its easy on the pocketbook. It is a feminist and anticolonial response to charlotte brontes novel jane eyre 1847, describing the background to mr rochesters marriage from the pointofview of his mad wife antoinette cosway, a creole heiress. Well it has arrived, and i have been using it for a few days and this certainly is a blue that grabs my interest. Oxford blue and regency blue look very dark in the written line.
Wide sargasso sea is a 1966 novel by dominicaborn british author jean rhys. When wide sargasso sea was published in 1966 it helped to rescue its author, jean rhys, from the obscurity into which she had fallen. Although similar to other diamine ink colors, such as diamine blue black, diamine denim and diamine twilight, it probably is one of the deepest and darkest. Diamine cult pens deep dark blue, diamine sargasso sea. Created by harvard students for students everywhere, sparknotes is a new breed of study guide. Written over the course of twentyone years and published in 1966, wide sargasso sea, based on charlotte brontes jane eyre, takes place in jamaica and dominica in 183945. The line that twists through jean rhyss wide sargasso sea tangles itself into knots that signify such thematic issues as desire, hatred, death, and violence.
Danielle wierenga i think the most important way to think about this novel is in a postcolonial context. A companion to the british and irish novel 19452000. In terms of comfort of use i give it too the pro gear, i love love love my nakaya but wouldnt say its top 5. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. I stand for nothing kind of blue splashed across every exercise book of. Ive been looking to try out this ink for some time now, and im glad i finally did. Sometimes its hard to keep track of what christophine is up to during wide sargasso sea. Jul 22, 2014 in wide sargasso sea, jean rhys explores the life of mr. By adding a secret ingredient to destress the surface, diamine have achieved a combination of vibrance in colour, with an ink flow which glides over the paper, safe for use in all fountain pens, not heavily saturated and will not clogg packed in 80ml glass bottle diamine colour swatch. In an interesting contrast to his embittered memories and outright dismissal of bertha as human in jane eyre, the rochester of wide sargasso sea is reluctantly and erotically intrigued by his young wife and her exotic home, but eventually grows into those attitudes made famous by jane.
A highly saturated ink, which is a bit of a rarity for diamine, it is all the name suggests. The line that twists through jean rhyss wide sargasso sea tangles itself into knots that signify. Geared to what todays students need to know, sparknotes provides. Im more bothered about wetness than shading or colour. Diamine ink is produced in the uk and is made with a gentle formula safe for all fountain pens. Diamine blue velvet ink profile viewers choice series. Her previous novels and short stories, published between the two world wars, were out of print. These iconic novels include themes found in one of charlotte brontes most successful novels jane eyre. Wanting to delve into the world of darker blues, i bought a bottle of diamine sargasso sea.
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