Just as a side note: Although I couldn’t find one in a thrift shop, antique store or second-hand dealer, typewriters ended up being absolutely everywhere in Charleville. I’ve actually had my hands on a special one that Robert Messenger has mentioned in his blog in the past, while I came across others in some of…
(read the following typecast in your best Bogart voice) (okay, go back to reading this with a voice that sounds more like Clive James now) I used to live in an apartment complex in the suburb of New Farm that had quite a culture to it. One of our co-tennants insisted that it felt like…
(Pardon the over use of the term: ‘Before long’ up there, I wasn’t quite paying attention as I typed). The Quiet-riter is perfect for small hands the love smashing keys as hard as possible. Pardon my dishevelled appearance, I’d not seen a comb in 12 hours, bed in 20 and a razor in 2 days.…
I strongly suggest you click these to enlarge them. Well, I did mean ‘serviced’ Hermes 3000, but I had the book ‘Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance’ in mind while I was writing this.
You may want to click these to enlarge them. Just a suggestion, nothing meant by it. Oh, and there’s probably a few errors. Proof reading is for wimps. Or people with actual writing careers. *Correction ‘still waking up in the darkness, to asleep to have a conversation. But you probably got that anyway.…
Moments after I wrote this, I pushed on a particularly soft piece of metal on the FP, and broke it. DOH! Another thing to fix now….
I had a day off from work today. I woke up with a very sore neck after sleeping badly, felt that there was no position to work and needed a break. i’d strained too much lately. So to amuse myself, I set about on some lightweight projects.
Typed on a Smith-Corona Sterling, 1948.
The Filthy Platen 