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   Anonymous on July 24, 2015 at 3:15 am

   Retyping whole novels? It's the Typospherian equivalent of running a marathon!

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   Anonymous on July 24, 2015 at 7:19 am

   This is great, thanks for highlighting his work. I am surprised that the paper is still in one piece at the end of the novel! His cardboard sculptures of the typewriters( on his website) are great too.

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   Anonymous on July 24, 2015 at 11:49 am

   I had the pleasure of meeting Tim at Jones Typewriter in St. Louis one day. Nice man. Told me about his experience retyping "The Sun Also Rises" on a Corona 3. Said it wasn't much fun because his hands weren't small enough for the keyboard.

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   Rob Bowker on July 24, 2015 at 11:53 am

   No chance of spotting (let alone correcting) a typo then! I've just been reading of Everett Reuss's adventures in Carmel and elsewhere.

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   Ted on July 24, 2015 at 2:43 pm

   Hmmn, that actually looks like a good reason to use one of those black/white bichrome "correction" ribbons. Type one page worth in ink, the next in correction, then back to ink, switching for each page and building up a textured layer of ink and correction overstrikes, all piled on top of each other.

   It should be noted that many authors learned how to tell stories by first re-typing favorite novels, to get into practice. I presume they use more than one sheet of paper, but the learning effect would likely be similar regardless if the final result was readable or not. (:

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   Ton S. on July 25, 2015 at 2:35 pm

   It's nice to know that Fariña's manuscript was typed on an Olivetti Lettera 32. (:

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   Bill M on July 28, 2015 at 10:17 am

   I may start typing my typecasts like that. As Rob stated…not able to spot typos.

   Retyping a novel (as I wrote that I thought I should write is a novel idea) sure would be a great way to practice typing, and it would not be as boring as the drills in a typing book.

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