My wife thinks it’s getting crowded with six typewriters in our living room. But with six upstairs and one on my desk at work I don’t really know where to store them… I need good shelves! A spring project?
Månad: februari 2017
Another brick in the wall
Every time the slug hits the ribbon I grow. This is what typing is all about for me; the writing of being. I write, therefore I am.
A nice place to work
My Remington has apparently served in one of the oldest bookstores in Sweden, founded in 1836.
Partners in writing
The P2 is made for writing, there’s no arguing about that. The one to the right is the one I bought yesterday. It needs to get some quality time with some sort of lubricant, some of the keys, at least two, tend to stuck in their movement back to the… cradle, or resting position.
Another Facit
I bought my second Facit P2 just to get the manual and touch typing ”training-screen”. Both are early versions with the round black backgrounds for the FACIT logo in the back. Now I can have one machine at home and one at work. Perfect!
How texts sometimes come to life
It was the phrase ”morally imbecile” in the book below that lead my thoughts in all directions and landed me in front of the Facit, which then helped me to rather hastily write that Oval Office sequence. It’s funny how one text brings another to life. Texts give birth to texts.
That’s how you do it…
I love the description of Tyrone Slothrop’s desk in Gravity’s Rainbow! I’m struggling to get my students to describe for example actions, characters and environments in their stories, maybe I should just toss them a few Pynchons… Fourth- and fifth graders might have some difficulties reading them though…
Literature, real literature,hits you like a Remington Portable’s platen – without mercy. ”Real” literature? Elitist way to think about books? Not really; there is a difference between for example Dan Brown and… DFW or… Joyce. Brown attracts and pleases a lot of readers and that’s great! People have to, they must, read. And Brown gives them exciting stories. But when you read Ulysses or Pale King… that’s something entirely different. The way these are written differs from many other books (there are of course a lot of great books!). The strength in the way the words come at you! Oh! That’s how you do it! But I agree, the term real literature is not that great… It might be a bit too hard. Sorry Mr. Brown. I got a bit carried away there. There are different kinds of literature, that’s it.
The typewriter and the typing writer.
Dog owners tend to look like their pets… What about us who love to type? Do we take on the combined looks of our machines?
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