Love them? Loathe them? Never actually seen one in person? What’s your experience of typewriters?
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I love the sound of them. The sound of raining typefaces on the roof. But I don’t like the aggravation they give my knuckles, with prolonged use. Also, the temptation to mash all the keys down at once, to watch the hammers get caught up in each other, is just too hard to resist.
Love them? Loathe them? Never actually seen one in person? What’s your experience of typewriters?
I love the sound of them. The sound of raining typefaces on the roof. But I don’t like the aggravation they give my knuckles, with prolonged use. Also, the temptation to mash all the keys down at once, to watch the hammers get caught up in each other, is just too hard to resist.
Ah, that rainy sound…
Perhaps you need to promise yourself a biscuit for every five minutes you don’t mash the keys 🙂
We had an old Soviet typewriter in our house when I was younger, but I have never actually used one.
A Soviet typewriter? I’m imagining something gray and utilitarian…
It was black, and perennially dusty. I suppose it WAS pretty dull, but the Cyrillic letters made it seem exotic and cool.
Yeah, I’ve heard of people who collect typewriters with different alphabets just for the fun of it – even alphabets they can’t read.
I’m finding my writing has improved because it forces me to think ahead about what I will put onto paper.
It is a useful discipline, isn’t it?