Posted on 07/01/06
Different strokes for different folks
The Iron Whim:A Fragmented Historyof Typewritingby Darren Wershler-HenryMcClelland & Stewart,331 pages, $29.99In my living room, under a kidney-shaped, glass-topped coffee table, sits a Remington No. 2 portable typewriter, given as a Christmas gift to my mother in 1928. The keys are a yellowish ivory and its metal frame is painted a lustrous purple and lavender, a two-tone colour scheme meant to appeal to women, to whom portable typewriters were marketed as a way of typing up letters and recipe cards. Today, it's an objet d'art, or maybe retro artifact is closer to the truth. (I have three other typewriters, including a sturdy 1940s-era Underwood on which I wrote articles early in my career, but they're in storage.)
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