MY END IS MY BEGINNING.

Transcribed below.

My end is my beginning.
I thought I’d make it through,
But at the final inning,
I don’t know what to do.
I head for my conclusion
With confidence—but then
My thoughts are all confusion.
I’m stuck, and once again

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Comments

  1. Maypo says:
    February 29, 2024 at 7:30 am

    Now that the marathon is over and in the American spirit of categorization and competition:
    Which has the most satisfying”action”?
    Which is most comfortable to type on for hours on end?
    Which keys feel nicest?
    Which is your favorite machine Doctor?
    And of course, why?

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  2. Daniel says:
    March 2, 2024 at 12:56 pm

    Sorry I am so late to the typewriter party again, but it just came into my memory that the way one made an exclamation point on the Sterling and similar keyboards was APOSTROPHE + BACKSPACE + PERIOD. This may have helped cause more conscious choice and reserve more value for the use of the “Screamer.”

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    • Dr. Boli says:
      March 2, 2024 at 1:24 pm

      Dr. Boli once heard of a young reporter whose editor stomped over to his desk with a file and obliterated the semicolon. It was still possible to make a semicolon by typing a colon, backspace, comma—but it would be work.

      On that principle, the Depression-era pared-to-the-bones Monarch Pioneer (which did not join our party this year, so we apologize for leaving it out) has no semicolon:

      Monarch Pioneer keyboard

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