My basement is loaded up with typewriters. My landlady’s kid collects them. Something pretty great about the typewriter, especially in this day and age. I have an electric typewriter from the 80s that’s sitting in my closet. I’ve been meaning to get an ink ribbon for it for a while. It doesn’t really have anything to do with nostalgia as I never really used a type writer, but more to do with the idea of something that serves a single purpose.
Have any of you tried to write anything of much substance on your computer lately? I find it very difficult to concentrate on anything for very long without getting side tracked by something shiny on the internet. It doesn’t really stop there either. I read on my tablet, and every time I pick it up, I’m just as likely to scour the pages of reddit or play a game than I am to start reading my book.
A typewriter types, a book has words in it that form a narrative, and a computer is a very advanced machine that basically forces us to embrace our inner ADDemons.