“It's possible to spend a fair length of time doing something intuitively, just because you can sense somehow that that thing is good and right and beneficial for you; then there is an added pleasure that can be gotten after someone else comes along and articulates — using clear language and beautifully reasoned arguments — what you had so far only felt on instinct.
This unexpected but entirely welcome articulation is what typewriter expert and philosophy professor Richard Polt's new book, "The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century," came along this fall and did for me and my roughly four-years-and-counting intuitive love of writing on typewriters.”
This lovely essay / book review by Kathleen Rooney of Poems While You Wait appears in today's Chicago Tribune.
PDF version here.
That is an excellent review and much more!
ReplyDeleteI loved that first paragraph when I read it this morning. It is exactly correct, and I think describes Typospherians to a "T". :D
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