The Central Tacoma Free Radical Media Exchange, to which I donated the Royal All-American last weekend, has begun designing a "semi-religious alcove" for it. An elevation of commitment to the printed word. As yet, curiously, no comment on the manifesto I typed up in it as a type sample.
In the comment thread, another friend of the exchange has offered a "pre-war Belgian typewriter that types in script." I may have to meet this guy for a type-in with the KMC guy.
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How mysterious, both the alcove and the pre-war Belgian machine...
ReplyDeleteOhhh.... I'd love to check this out.
ReplyDeleteI have my suspicions about that Belgian machine -- sounds like someone's idea of a prank, particularly since script typewriters were very unusual before the war. Still, you never know.
ReplyDeleteI recently got an Olivetti ICO with Belgian keyboard, and that arrangement is weird, weird, weird.
Good place to leave the manifesto. I hope it will get some attention.
I felt the same way, Richard. My own thoughts were more that he knew it had been bought in (or brought from) Belgium but that it was likely a German or Swiss make, and also that people frequently overestimate the ages of typewriters. I suspect it'll turn out to be postwar if it exists at all.
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