Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Charles Portis: “black words fixed hard on white paper"



Source: "The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth," Oxford American, 2005 (a very amusing story that riffs on the monkeys, typewriters, and Shakespeare cliché). Portis, best known for the novel True Grit, is said to have typed with two fingers of each hand on an Underwood.

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