Introduction The Typewriter as an Agent of Change?
In 2006, when Larry McMurtry accepted the Golden Globe award for co-writing the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain, he thanked his typewriter (it was a Hermes 3000). In Colorado, Hunter S. Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), took his typewriter out into the snow and shot it (and...
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| Abstract | In 2006, when Larry McMurtry accepted the Golden Globe award for co-writing the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain, he thanked his typewriter (it was a Hermes 3000). In Colorado, Hunter S. Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), took his typewriter out into the snow and shot it (and later himself).¹ Clearly the typewriter was not just a soulless machine; it had a persona, to be befriended, cherished, reviled, or murdered. Many writers treated their typewriter like a living creature, as did Paul Auster, who called his Olympia a “fragile, sentient being”:² “It was simply a tool that |
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| AbstractList | In 2006, when Larry McMurtry accepted the Golden Globe award for co-writing the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain, he thanked his typewriter (it was a Hermes 3000). In Colorado, Hunter S. Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), took his typewriter out into the snow and shot it (and later himself).¹ Clearly the typewriter was not just a soulless machine; it had a persona, to be befriended, cherished, reviled, or murdered. Many writers treated their typewriter like a living creature, as did Paul Auster, who called his Olympia a “fragile, sentient being”:² “It was simply a tool that |
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