While we’re all on the subject of typewriters, I should mention that I’m a half-hearted collector of typewriters. I have 5 typewriters all told in my apartment, one a modern electric one that I used to write on occasionally because I liked the click-clack sound and the feel of it, four others that my girlfriend and others have given me from antique shops or their basements after they heard I like typewriters. One is a wonderful, huge honkin’ black mass of metal that must weigh 30 pounds with those classic white-on-black keys–it must have been the pride of someone’s office, what, 50 years ago? I remember thinking as a kid that typewriters were the coolest things, and I still have some of that feeling, although I’m not quite interested enough to know anything about them or even the models cluttering my apartment (except that none of them are Selectrics).