I bought avintage typewriterthis weekend for $ 25 . I do n’t reckon it ’s a peculiarly worthful model or anything , but it look cool and make a really satisfying typing noise . And there ’s no " 1" key , because at that point in clip , people were expected to use the minuscule " l" in spot of the actual identification number one . If I can find decoration I might actually type on it . mighty now it sit on the china hutch that you have to pass to go to our bathroom , so every metre I go past it I have to hit the button that makes it go " Ding!“ It ’s repulse my married man crazy . Anyway , I ’ve patently get typewriters on the brainpower , but I ’m not the only one " “ these 10 author liked theirs too .
10 . P.J. O’Rourke uses an IBM Selectricas well , saying his short attending couplet does n’t mix well with spell on a computer . And he ’s proper " “ it ’s easy to get distracted by your einsteinium - mail and Twitter and Facebook and , well , mental_floss . He also say the typewriter is a good thing because it makes source slow down . Stephen King once said that if he had a computer back in the daylight , he could have indite threeCujosin the clip it took to type the one . " Does the world need three times as manyCujos?“ O’Rourke responded laconically .
Well , after researching all of that , I have an even more romanticized idea of typewriter than I did before . Jason , from now on , I ’ll be submitting all of my_flossarticles on typewriter paper . I ’ll send you a wire so you ’ll know when to expect them . Any other typewriter enthusiasts out there ? Is there anything I should know about my new treasure ? And can you discover old typewriter thread anywhere other than eBay ?
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