MORE CONCISE LANGUAGE.

Said the writer to the robot,
“When I’m writing, I let no bot
Tell me what to do—so go, bot.
If I need you, I will call.”

Said the robot to the writer,
“But your prose could still be tighter,
And the reader’s burden lighter,
If you didn’t write at all.”

Comments

  1. Occasional Correspondent says:

    How do you store all your typewriters?  I have visions of an attic, climate-controlled, with meat hooks hanging down from the rafters and, from each hook, a typewriter suspended from some convenient point in its frame sufficiently open to admit the hook’s point.  (The Linotype, of course, would sit in its own corner.)(unless maybe you have the Linotype in the music room next to the piano, making its own Linotypical music)  Staff, I imagine, would handle dusting chores and any routine lubrication needed.

    • Dr. Boli says:

      The truth is more prosaic. The typewriters live on commercial-grade wheeled shelving sourced from a restaurant-supply house. It is not a romantic system, but it is practical.

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