What I Want
I want a typewriter. To be exact... I want an Underwood Portable circa 1915-1931. I want to feel/hear the rhythm of the typewriter. I want to introduce a new element into my process. I want to experience the process of my favorites.
Kerouac, Chandler, Faulkner, Hemmingway, Hitchcock, Wolfe, and Sinclair trusted Underwood's machines and I want to too.
I've found them to be really, really, really cheap on eBay. Like... on average... $20 with another $15- $20 for shipping. I, however am at something of a dilemma. As Christmas comes nearer, anything I buy for myself is a present I could have asked for as I'm bombarded by family with the question, "What do you want for Christmas?"
This typewriter that I want, however, being on eBay, is on auction and ends in a few days. AND, since it's nearly an antique, the likely-hood of finding another one just like it (Kerouac's model) isn't very promising.
So... I think I'm gonna put a bid on it anyway... and if someone wants to buy it for me for Christmas, theeeeeen they can shoot me the money, I guess.
This typewriter that I want, however, being on eBay, is on auction and ends in a few days. AND, since it's nearly an antique, the likely-hood of finding another one just like it (Kerouac's model) isn't very promising.
So... I think I'm gonna put a bid on it anyway... and if someone wants to buy it for me for Christmas, theeeeeen they can shoot me the money, I guess.
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