Choosing permanent ink signals a commitment to stand by one’s words

Evidence

At some stage I must have made a commitment to commitment, and to stand by my mistakes, because I noticed that only bubbleheads used washable, bright blue ink, and took to Permanent Black. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 60

Categorization

• SEED: An essay seed: material choices as moral posture — the writer’s tool as an ethical commitment.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 60
• XREF: connects to: Ink is a generative fluid whose written words always breed consequences. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 59; Stating a reason creates a presumptive commitment to follow it later — Frederick Schauer, Thinking Like a Lawyer, 325; Self-binding in advance defeats temptation that cannot be resisted at the moment — , A Year of World Stories, 14165

Broader Connections

• Self-binding in advance defeats temptation that cannot be resisted at the moment #epitomizes (0.70) — , A Year of World Stories, 14165