Overthrow the human heart via Typewriter
1980 IBM Selectric 3 and Silent Super 1959, both green.
‘Give me a few hours and a typewriter’. That was Eisenhower's request after Pearl Harbor. It was a fairly 'primitive' machine by today's standards... probably a Hammond. I've tried to write long manuscripts on a similar one from 1923. I rarely get past the first few pages.
I don't do much planning of war or retaliation, per se. But I will say this:
'Give me a few hours and a typewriter' when there's a human heart at stake. Or when there's a relationship that needs focus. That much I can handle.
Not always. Often.
When assailed for the profanity in his writing, Henry Miller retorted: "People always say that sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war." That's about where I sit.
Tactile thing that was hand made that one can hold in the world, that matters. Something unique and original. Not just the humorous or touching card from the card store or the grocery store. Not the script-writers... your writing.
The Screenless Writer
The Screenless Writer book is in the final phase. I was going to do a facsimile on the IBM Selectric 3 (which I've been testing for 3 years without problems) and the hub gear cracked. We replace those with a metal one now, generally, so it'll last forever. Starts to sound like a chopper landing in Vietnam, and then, an eerie silence. So that'll require a rerouting of the final draft.
Also, every day I'm learning something and gaining new insights, so it'll be worth the wait (I hope).
Speaking of which, we have a new tech working on Selectrics and they are glorious. I've upgraded the listing with some new photos. These are just impossible to come by in excellent working condition, particularly via mail.
This will be an exciting year!
Oh yeas, I'll be posting LESS, and working more on finishing the book and printing the paper newsletter that will follow it.
Most sincerely,
Steven Budden Jr.
Classic Typewriter Co.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina