It is a wonderful feeling to find those pieces of your life that you probably even remember. Most of what I wrote when I was young was by hand (we did have a computer at home, but it was heavily supervised by my mom, as it should be), so I've lost most of it. I do love typewriters. They are incredibly unpractical nowadays, but I find the clickety-clack so satisfying! It was awful to make a mistake, though...
It can be, yes, and I do remember most things -- but I do not always remind them. Finding these old pieces of paper brought some things to the surface that I haven't thought about for a long while.
About the typewriter, yes. I liked it too. I still have it, actually, but it is just lying on top of a closet. I don't know if I can get cartridges for it anymore, but, as you say, making mistakes means either to cover it by chalk (my machine has a built-in mechanism for this) or to use some correction ink (also chalk, I guess), that is clearly visible on the paper.
The great thing about typewriters when they were common was that people accepted the less than perfect. I want that back! In most cases, it really doesn't do any harm to a text that you can see how the thoughts have moved around a bit, and the finger with them, until they found the final formula for saying what needed to be said.
I believe we used white-out when I was a kid. My grandmother was an expert mecanographer and that was pretty impressive. But you are right. We all need to go back to giving room for a little rambling and imperfection. I'm loving these new, more personal posts!
I think I should start running.
It is a wonderful feeling to find those pieces of your life that you probably even remember. Most of what I wrote when I was young was by hand (we did have a computer at home, but it was heavily supervised by my mom, as it should be), so I've lost most of it. I do love typewriters. They are incredibly unpractical nowadays, but I find the clickety-clack so satisfying! It was awful to make a mistake, though...
It can be, yes, and I do remember most things -- but I do not always remind them. Finding these old pieces of paper brought some things to the surface that I haven't thought about for a long while.
About the typewriter, yes. I liked it too. I still have it, actually, but it is just lying on top of a closet. I don't know if I can get cartridges for it anymore, but, as you say, making mistakes means either to cover it by chalk (my machine has a built-in mechanism for this) or to use some correction ink (also chalk, I guess), that is clearly visible on the paper.
The great thing about typewriters when they were common was that people accepted the less than perfect. I want that back! In most cases, it really doesn't do any harm to a text that you can see how the thoughts have moved around a bit, and the finger with them, until they found the final formula for saying what needed to be said.
I believe we used white-out when I was a kid. My grandmother was an expert mecanographer and that was pretty impressive. But you are right. We all need to go back to giving room for a little rambling and imperfection. I'm loving these new, more personal posts!