This baby (the Remington SL3 typewriter) speaks electric Shakespeare at…

This baby (the Remington SL3 typewriter) speaks electric Shakespeare at the slightest provocation and will rap out a page and a half if you just look at it hard.

Sourced, Still Life with Woodpecker
(1980)

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“I’ll follow him to the ends of the earth,” she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn’t have any ends. Columbus fixed that. - View Quote Details on “I’ll follow him to the ends of the earth,” she…
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Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received. - View Quote Details on Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess…
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. - View Quote Details on It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised. - View Quote Details on A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any…
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - View Quote Details on We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of…
He looked at her with that kind of painted-on seriousness that comedians shift into when they get their chance to play Hamlet. - View Quote Details on He looked at her with that kind of painted-on seriousness…
If we’re ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we’re going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we’ve got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around. - View Quote Details on If we’re ever going to get the world back on…