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    Apr 04, 2021 5 minutes
    Illustrations Evie Barrow

    BIC 4 COLOUR RETRACTABLE BALLPOINT PEN

    have a confession. I never got my pen licence. My handwriting was, and remains, abysmal. Somehow, probably due to poor teacher-to-student ratios in Queensland, I got away with using pens anyway. Screw the system, right? One of the first pens I yearned for was this: a four-colour BIC. The fancy kids had them and that satisfying click of changing colours echoed through the classroom – a kick in the teeth to us single-colour pen kids. This pen is beautiful in the way 1970s architecture is beautiful: it’s functional, slightly futuristic, bold. Ugly and bold, which is sort of how I’d describe my aesthetic. The pen writes fine, but the ink is not the point. It’s the convenience and the look – the power. When I was younger,

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