Fountain pens

Fountain pens
Your strange habits, one that to this day amazed me was the way you wrote. I don't mean your style of writing, or subject of what you wrote. Your writing always inspired me and still does when I read the old letters you sent me or your short stories. What amazed me was the way you kept 7 or 8 fountain pens ink filled and ready on top of your desktop. I guess this was your way of saying desktop means desktop not the one computer screen. Your Luddite tendency I used to call it. Your writing had to be done in the nook sunniest spot in our home, where you had good view of Seattle sky light.
I never asked you why so many pens or what was your preference? Did you use old Parker which you inherited from your grand dad for certain subjects or the old Schaefer for other?
Did you use them differently sad stori for one happy or entertaining ones with other.