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Low life

A paean to a typewriter

The only way to write on a typewriter is with your trousers on fire — and very refreshing it is

5 December 2015

9:00 AM

5 December 2015

9:00 AM

My favourite YouTube video clip this week shows a chap sitting at a desk typing. All you can see of him are his hairy forearms, poised hands and fast fingers. He types for ten minutes. Nothing else happens. The typewriter is a portable designed in the early 1960s by Marcello Nizzoli for Olivetti — the famous Lettera 32.

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