Great Writers And Their Typewriters

Bryan Garner put this image up on Twitter, and it is great. There is an Exhibit at the Airport in San Francisco which shows the typewriters of famous writers. Hemingway, Welles, Williams, and Lennon are represented. Most of us who fancy ourselves writers these days type our screeds on computer keyboards. I used a Smith Corona portable in College, and it still sits next to my desk in its case, just in case Armageddon comes and there is no power. Of course, I still need to buy a cache of ribbons and fresh paper. There is no feeling like placing a fresh sheet of white paper into a typewriter, and scrolling it to the first line. I still use mechanical keyboards to emulate the satisfying click, click, click as the keys are punched. Tactile Nirvana. Old School. Write on.