A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
~ Marshall McLuhan
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It bothers me to see typewriters dismantled like this. I know that they might be out of common usage since we have computers, but there is still something about a mangled typewriter that is disconcerting to me. I think it's maybe that the stories that might have come from this machine are no more. It could be that - to me - the "repurposing" of typewriter letters is never going to be as good as the original-purposing of them.
Or it could just be that I don't like the fact that when someone does this they are making a typewriter into a typewronger.
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