Flavorwire Makes the Case Against YOUR Friend: Typewriters

Well, they're certainly not OUR friends. No, definitely, ABSOLUTELY, not! Us? Use a typewriter? Nah, you've got to be kidding... Just give us a minute here to destroy the damning evidence and cry a little into our e.e. cummings...

From Flavorwire:

Below I’ve collected a range of anecdotes and links that leave no doubt about the idiocy of typewriter fetishism.

1. Gandhi hated typewriters. Late in life, he became

dubious about their value, while still using them when needed. In 1926, for example, Gandhi wrote to one of his Western women disciples, Esther Menon: “I too detest the typewriter. I have a horror of it, but I survive it as I survive many things which do no lasting harm. If someone dispossessed me of the typewriter, I should not shed a single tear, but, as it is there, I make use of it and, even believe that some time is being saved for more useful work.”

2. Pink Floyd used a typewriter, complete with carriage return bell, as a percussion instrument on their song “Money.”

3. Tom Hanks is writing a book of stories devoted to typewriters.

4. Even the entrepreneur behind the first commercially successful typewriter, Christopher Latham Scholes, inventor of the QWERTY keyboard, vehemently rejected the machine before his death.

5. The typewriter is the purest symbol for no less than three literary scourges: the literary curmudgeon, the pseudo-literate upstart, and that proxy for the bibliophile: the book fetishist.

6. There is a subreddit for typewriter fans.

7. Typewriters terrify children. [...]

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