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Welsh legend supports that this happened, with stories such as Breuddwyd Macsen Wledig (English: The Dream of Emperor Maximus), where he not only marries a wondrous British woman (thus making British descendants probable), but also gives her father sovereignty over Britain (thus formally transferring authority from Rome back to the Britons themselves).
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Mabinogion by [[Will Parker]]
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Michael Harvey https://www.youtube.com/@michaelharveystoryteller8003/videos
Has a version of How Culhwch won Owen
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Hi, it depends on the shop and the person doing the work. I diagnose for a flat fee of $20. For manual machines, general cleaning and service is billed at $165 with repairs at $65/hrs plus parts. Teardowns and restorations are billed purely hourly. This job is a total of $1,100 with the teardown as well as a frame weld. The welding required parts prepping, gas fees, post processing... and took about 5 hours total. The rest of the machine is about 15 hours so far. Still have about four to go. So yeah, I'm technically supposed to bill another $400 or so, but I'm going to let that slide since the client is already paying a lot for a machine worth way less. Typewriter repair is expensive, especially when it's done to the level of detail that I go to. Very few shops put this much care and attention into these machines. All that being said, the average job on a manual typewriter at my shop usually runs around $300. Full clean, and usual repairs
Typewriter Chicago / Lucas Dul rates: - Diagnosis for $20 - Manuals: general cleaning and service: $165 - repairs at $65/hour plus parts - average job on manuals runs around $400 - teardowns and restorations billed purely hourly around $55/hour
This example is $1,100 for 5 hours of frame/welding work and 15 hours of tear down, cleaning and re-assembly. He'll likely go 4 hours over, but is discounting it.
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Accountability by [[Adam Newbold]]
A post about the kerfuffle on micro.blog on 2025-01-22
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”Accountability feels like an attack when you’re not ready to acknowledge how your behavior harms others.” — Tamara Renaye
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Silence by [[Vincent Ritter]]
In response to micro.blog kerfuffle about allyship on 2025-01-22
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220s, the king, Attalus I, set up a large victorymonument in the sanctuary of Athena in Pergamum depictingGauls in defeat. It was from this group that the famous sculptureof the dying Gaul, known from what is usually thought to be alater Roman copy, originally came.
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As a Stoic philosopherPoseidonius chose to present the Celts as ‘noble savages’ — hehas been called a soft primitivist.
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It was Poseidonius’ ethnography of the Celtsthat provided the information for Strabo, Diodorus Siculus,Athenaeus, and possibly also Caesar.
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Poseidonius (¢.135-c¢.50 Bc)
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Aristotle, Plato, and Ephorus
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Polybius, Livy, and Pausanias
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Diodorus’ description of the long droopingmoustaches of the Celts, so long that they completely cover themouth so that drink is strained through them.
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Ephorus (quoted by Strabo)offers the insight that the Celts are careful to avoid becoming fat orpot-bellied and a young man is punished if his stomach hangs overhis belt.
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The Classical texts abound with anecdotes displaying the Celt as‘other’.
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Poseidonius is probably the source for the account published byDiodorus Siculus of Celtic wine-drinking.
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Plato, in his Laws written in the middle of the fourth century,is the first to offer observations on the Celts stressing theirwarlike nature and their drunkenness.
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Strabo was probably using the lost ethnographic works ofPoseidonius as a source for this and much of his other informationon Celtic behaviour, and, since Poseidonius is thought to havetravelled in the West, probably in Gaul, in the late second centuryBC, he too may have made first-hand observations rather than justrepeating earlier sources.
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Strabo, for example, is quiteexplicit:The whole race . . . is war-mad, high spirited and quick to battle, butotherwise straightforward and not of evil character. And so whenthey are stirred up they assemble in their bands for battle quiteopenly and without forethought ... They are ready to face dangereven if they have nothing on their side but their own strength andcourage. (Geog. 4.4.2)
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The term Galli/Galatae, which may mean ‘stranger’ or‘enemy’, is more likely to be a general-purpose name by whichnorthern barbarians, among them the Celts, were referred to byothers. Whether all Galli/Galatae regarded themselves as Celtsis completely unknown.
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Julius Caesar. Writing of Gaul(France) in the mid-first century Bc he states, quite deliberately ofthe inhabitants, presumably in an attempt at clarification, ‘we call[them] Gauls though in their own language they are called Celts’.
In many languages, the name people call themselves is often the word for "human" or "people".
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Greek Pausanius emphasizes thatKeltoi was a far more ancient name than Gall.
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An even earlier source is the ethnographer Hecataeus of Miletus,who was about in the late sixth century Bc. From scraps of his lostwork quoted by others we learn that Narbon (near modernNarbonne in southern France) was a Celtic city and trading centreand that Massalia (Marseilles) was a Greek city founded in Ligurianterritory near Celtica. He also lists Nyrax as a Celtic city but itslocation is unknown, though some argue that it may have beenNoricum in Austria.
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Herodotus also offers other tantalizing scraps of Celtic geography.
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Elsewhere Strabo tells usthat Ephorus believed Celtica to be so large that it included most ofIberia as far as Gades (Cadiz).
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‘Tf the heavens and earth are divided into four parts, the Indians willoccupy the land of the east wind, the Ethiopians the regions fromwhich the south wind blows, the Celts the west, and the Scythiansthe land of the north wind.’ This was the world view of Greekhistorian Ephorus of Cymae, whose great work Universal History,in thirty books, was written in the first half of the fourth century Bc.The original text has long since disappeared but this particularscrap survives as a quotation in Strabo’s Geography (1.2.28),compiled nearly three centuries later.
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Classical sources - Greek and Roman writerswith their references to Celti, Celtae, Keltoi, Celtici, Galli, Gallic,and Galatae -
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When SirAugustus Wollaston Franks, a Keeper at the British Museum,produced a catalogue of British decorated metalwork in 1863, hechose the term ‘Late Keltic’ to describe items of Iron Age date. Thephrase was used throughout the first edition of the British MuseumGuide to the Antiquities of the Early Iron Age (1905), but by thetime of the second edition (1925) the characterization was droppedbecause, as the preface cautiously noted, ‘There is some uncertaintyas to the existence or date of an earlier Keltic civilization in theseislands.’
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antiquarian scholar EdwardLhuyd coined the word Celtic for a group of languages - Irish,Welsh, Cornish, and Breton - and published an account of themand their similarities in his great work Archaeologia Britannica in1707.
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This early eighteenth-century hypothesis has driven the debate eversince. Its longevity is truly remarkable and due in no small part tothe fact that linguists and archaeologists were for a long timeprepared to accept each other’s interpretations, each gainingreassurance by building upon the other in an uncritical circle ofmutually supporting assertion lacking firm foundation.
Early 18C hypotheses about Celtic identity were posited by linguists and archaeologists without solid underpinning and these have persisted for several centuries broadly unquestioned.
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John Collis who, in ‘States without Centres’,complains that Celtic society described by some modern authorsmerely represents a mishmash of information from different timesand different places which is often of little value for understandingthe societies being described. Descriptions, or rather caricature, ofsocieties cannot be transposed in time and space under an inventedconcept of the ‘Celts’; indeed the whole use of the terms Celt andCeltic is something which should be avoided as it distorts ourunderstanding of the archaeological record.
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Simon James claimed inhis 1999 book The Atlantic Celts Ancient People or ModernInvention,
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Or should we accept, as J. R. R. Tolkien wrote in 1963, that‘anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not somuch a twilight of the gods as of the reason’, remembering, as thegreat Celtic scholar David Ellis Evans sternly pointed out in 1999,that Tolkien’s aside was meant specifically to make fun of certainextreme linguistic entomologies and not to be all embracing.
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In 2001the Interceltic Congress, held at Rennes, was attended by 200delegates, half from Brittany and the other half from ‘other Celticcountries’. The theme of the conference was ‘History in the CelticCountries Nowadays — People without memory are people with nofuture’.
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In 1867, at atime when Bretons were desperately trying to preserve theirlanguage and traditions against the cultural imperialism of thecentralized French state, Hersart de La Villemarqué, author of thefamous Barzaz-Breiz (Songs of Brittany), sent out a call for whatwas to become the first Interceltic Congress, to be held at Saint-Brieuc. His appeal was to his ‘compatriots from Wales, brothersfrom Cornwall and cousins from Ireland and Scotland’.
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FestivalInterceltic de Lorient, heir to the Bagpipes Festival that was held atBrest from 1953 to 1970.
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Cunliffe, Barry. The Celts: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Turns out I have 3 SCM machines with different linespacing values ("Regular", "Magna" and "Line-Saver") and they can be swapped fairly easily. Refer to pages 237-239 of your Smith-Corona Floating Shift Bible for details,
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Making Custom Typewriter Line Spacings by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
I suspected JVC would have a custom cut platen gear, but he's using a premarked backing sheet to adjust each line to do one and a half line spacing.
Joe mentions that the manual adjustments on each line is a net positive in that it gives him some time to pause and collect his thoughts before continuing writing on each line.
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Graeber, David, and Rebecca Solnit. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays. Edited by Nika Dubrovsky. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. https://amzn.to/3O5S6DF.
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President-elect Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Here are the rights he is set to lose by [[The Associated Press]]
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Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 by [[Internet Archive]]
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David McCullough on His Typewriter by [[C-SPAN]]
Man shed for writing with a single room of 8' x 12' with 800 books, Royal KMM typewriter, and 2 filing cabinets. He's written every book he's ever done on his Royal KMM.
"It's got 750,000 miles on it."
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‘We’d be stuck’: alarm as UK’s last braille typewriter repairer ponders retirement by [[Matthew Weaver]]
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Thorpe is often amused by the objects he finds in the machines. “I’ve found pens, memory sticks, house keys, Lego bricks, little rubber toys, all sorts inside,” he says.
I often find things inside typewriters...
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The machines were first designed in 1951 at Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts, where they have been made ever since.
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He is sure they can be working again after a paraffin bath to clean up accumulated gunge and some careful plier work to straighten bent keys.
Alan Thorpe cleans his Perkins Braillers in a paraffin bath.
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How to make a Carnyx ? A 2000 years old celtic instrument. by [[Samuel Meric]]
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Constructing the carnyx by [[National Museums Scotland]] featuring blacksmith John Creed
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Secrets of the carnyx by [[National Museums Scotland]] featuring John Kenny
300 pictures of the instrument from the ancient world, but only about 6 depict it being played, all show it being it played upright.
A Deskford Carnyx reconstruction was constructed to allow the instrument to be played upright.
The Deskford Carnyx has a skull which resonates with sound rather than coming straight out as might be imagined.
Tintignac hoard included six carnyces. These included ears which ring sympathetically as the instrument is played. The sound come straight out of mouth of the instrument.
The Tintignac Carnyx was meant to be played horizontal or off horizontal.
Tintignac, France
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Le Son del Carnyx by [[Samuel Meric]]
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Pronunciation of Celtic: Why are there two ways? by [[Editors of Merriam-Webster]]
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Sword, Helen. Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. https://amzn.to/4iYPhCE.
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Scholars Talk Writing: Helen Sword by [[Rachel Toor]] in Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017-07-31 archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210722062708/https://www.chronicle.com/article/scholars-talk-writing-helen-sword/
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a larger ecology of writing.
I like this framing!
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My research showed that successful academics build their writing practice on a complex set of attitudes and attributes that I call their “writing BASE” — behavioral habits of discipline and persistence, artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care, social habits of collegiality and collaboration, and emotional habits of positivity and pleasure.
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It’s not your day-to-day habits that matter, I found, so much as your habits of mind.
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Not only did very few of the academics I talked with follow the recommended practices; many of them actually reported engaging in behaviors that the writing guides explicitly warn against, such as “binge writing” or writing only when they feel like it.
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Typewriter Basics: End of Page Indicators by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
Handful of methods:<br /> - page gauges (Smith-Corona, some Royals) - paper support arm (adjustable) - notch in paper pan (Hermes & some Silver Seikos) - Platen knobs (requires mod math and adjustable ring) (IBM)
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used Molykote DX with my oiler (watchmakers oiler) to apply a small about on the type bars exactly where they pivot, and it did make it much smoother.
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Paxton, Jennifer. The Celtic World: Course Guidebook. Great Courses, 2251.0. Chantilly, VA: Great Courses, 2018.
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Lucas Dul does an overview of affordable and available tools for typewriter repair as well as more advanced
Basic Tools
- screwdriver sets
- Carpenter screwdrivers (come to a point) the point can slip and causecam out screws
- Hollow ground - provide the most amount of torque and prevent cam-out problems (also called gunsmith He uses the 0623 Chapman set (the number is the date of international typewriter day) The large tip can be problematic
- long reach screwdriver
- magnetic screwdriver
- tempered stainless steel ruler (as a screwdriver, especially
- microdrivers (usually used for eyeglasses or electronics)
- spring hooks (push/pull)
- Fixture from an embroidery set with length for getting length
- grab hooks
- pliers
- standard needle nose pliers
- 45-90 degree pliers (he uses more often)
- wire cutters (for modifying springs in machines and modifying links in machines)
- parallel draw pieces (with heavy duty cutters)
- Mechanics' wrench set
- prefer cast ones
- socket screwdrivers (fixed hex screwdriver) expecially for shift adjustment on the Royal Ps
- Chapman's has a mini rachet 1/4" socket in it's 0623 set
- Forceps especially a long pair for IBM Selectrics (via Duane Jensen)
- Tweezers
- Blowtorches
- alcohol torches (for heating and bending metal)
- soldering, brazing, and heat shrinking
- small butane torch (cigarette lighter use)
- Oilers with needlepoint applicator (he uses sewing machine oil)
- One can use the surface tension of the oil to place a dot on the tip of a scewdriver (flat head) and then place the dot within a machine with reasonable precision
- MIG Pliers - have cutouts for taking rubber off of old feedrollers (otherwise these pliers are used for welding); he describes it as the nutcracker of the typewriter world
- strap wrench (especially for removing platen knobs to prevent damage)
- knife (butter knife)
- razor blade for trimming rubber (otherwise too thin for other applications)
- flashlight (simple is fine)
- marker (Sharpie)
- marking orientation of removed parts (washes off with alcohol)
- hammer
- retainer clip pliers (especially for IBMs, Brothers, Swintecs) with spare e- and c-clips (some have thumbscrews for minimizing damage to clips) openers are more useful than "closers"
- Bristol wrenches - looks like Allen Keys, but with star cross section for bristol locks in IBM machines
- Hand crank (for IBM Selectrics) thread into the operational cam shaft
Intermediate Tools
- segment bearing rod (good for removing individual typebars)
- drinking straw for ball bearings on royal portables and S-C portables and flat tops staggered 1/2" ball bearings with orbital gear (star-shaped) - snip opposite sides to insert orbital ring and ball bearing for holding and placement in typewriter
- carpenter's pencil for marking
Advanced/Specialty tools
- t-bender for forming metal (exp. thin pieces)
- 9 jaw pliers for bending typebars
- peening pliers (for manipulating and stretching materials)
- wheel benders (he doesn't use often)
- eyelete tool for putting eyelets in typewritter ribbon
- files (small/cheap) widen gaps inside of type guides when necessary or thinning out tight pieces
Very specialized
- Type slug solder jig or solder guide (30:52)
- keyring pliers ($400 and above to purchase)
- multimeter for checking circuit components on electric models. Primarily using Ohm setting to see if current is passing through parts, otherwise they're broken.
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- center punch for drilling points and new screws
- dental mirror for looking into machines
- spring gauge to set 2lbs for desktop and 1lb for portables
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air compressors are useful for cleaning
Don't damage screws on older machines.
US used imperial screws until 1940/50s and machines after are all metric.
3 dessert island tools<br /> - screwdrivers, pliers, spring hook
- screwdriver sets
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On This Day in Typewriter History: Royal’s HH - 'The Greatest New Typewriter of All Time' by [[Robert Messenger]]
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what's your deserted island typewriter? (if I had to pick 5 typewriters...)<br /> by [[Just My Typewriter]]
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Olympia SM-3 Typewriter Ribbon Lift Adjustment Cuts Off by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
Adjustment for the tops of letters being cut off, particularly on Olympias and Underwoods. Sometimes happens with the first capitalized letter after typing lowercase.
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Royal Quiet Deluxe Typewriter Cuts Off Top of Letters Ribbon Lift Adjusted, Repaired Character Print by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
If the tops of one or two individual letters is being cut off, it may require forming of the letter's assembly to have it engage with ribbon lift bar a tad earlier.
This is different in form from an on feet adjustment.
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The Basic Elements of Creativity
This could also include linking ideas, but isn't that really just a version of combination if done correctly (or does it require the additional step?)
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Van Doren, Charles. A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future. 1st ed. 1991. Reprint, New York, N.Y: Ballantine Books, 1992. https://amzn.to/4fvWabz.
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https://www.ultraoneusa.com/<br /> Ultra ONE<br /> cleaners, degreasers, rust removal products
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Ultra One, a restoration firm whose specialty product is a de-rusting solution which is designed to remove only rust while leaving the underlying metal, paint and decals intact.
Could Ultra One's rust solution be used on typewriters?
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https://www.etsy.com/shop/BrooksawAntiques<br /> Adam of Brooksaw Antiques<br /> Indicates 5 years of typewriter repair experience in an individual listing from eBay.
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The 2023 Rover Typewriter: Worst Machine Ever? by [[Typewriter Chicago]]
I know Michaels was carrying the We R Memory Keepers typewriter, but hadn't heard about Home Depot carrying them.
Rover made by Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company still making typewriters (bad quality control, plastic, poor alignment). These are variously rebadged as: - the Rover - the Royal Epoch - We R Memory Keepers (Michaels, Home Depot) - Royal Classic (metal shell) - Maplefield (Target, Walmart, Michaels) - The Oliver Typewriter Company
Will Davis has determined that they're all based on the Olympia Carina.
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All these "rules" are really just guidance/suggestions... I highly recommend you try out the thing you would imagine to work and see how it goes. If it works for you, then great. If not, try something else. What works for someone else isn't necessarily going to work for you. How do you think these things came about? They really weren't invented, but slight variations on a pre-existing theme that someone customized for their needs.
It's called a "zettelkasten practice" for a reason. After you've been at it for a few months, write up your experience and let us know how it all worked out. What worked well? What didn't? Speculate on the reasons why...
reply to u/King_PenguinOs at https://old.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1hklaii/getting_started_with_zettelkasten/
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I particularly like Austin Typewriter, Ink.'s coat of arms for underlining this point: <image>
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(Some summary of ring & cylinder adjustments based on other notes)
A new platen in many cases will help to solve some of the proximal problem, but you'll still have heavy wear on your paper/ribbon and your new platen over time as a result. The first adjustments a pro typewriter repair person would make after installing a new platen would be to check the ring & cylinder, on feet, and motion which can all be subtly out of alignment with a new platen.
Pretty much every typewriter in modern era has adjustment points for this. All three of the machines you name definitely do. You'll find some of the basics and adjustment points for several machines described at https://typewriterdatabase.com/1945-AMES-OAMI-MechanicalTrainingMan.v1-ringcylinder.manual. If you look at the manuals for specific machines that Ted Munk has collected at the typewriterdatabase.com, you'll find how/where to make those adjustments. Several on Polt's website describe the adjustment as well: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html#servicemanuals
Some sources may describe the adjustment as hammer and anvil as opposed to ring and cylinder.
You're also likely to find YouTube videos on them as well (I'd check Phoenix Typewriter's channel first, though I do recall he mislabeled one once on a S-C Skyriter which was really an on feet/motion adjustment.) Duane's also got a really subtle and uncommon adjustment on a Royal QDL here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOET0i3DsR8
Gerren gives an adjustment nod for the Olympia SM series here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2jnC6ODB834&t=670s And here's a blogpost about the adjustment points for an Olympia SF: https://ber10thal.com/blog/repairing-a-1961-olympia-sf/
Related blogposts from Munk for a Brother JP-1:
- https://munk.org/typecast/2022/01/23/adjusting-ring-cylinder-on-a-brother-jp-1/
- https://munk.org/typecast/2013/07/30/typewriter-repair-101-adjusting-vertical-typeface-alignment-segmentbasket-shift-typewriters/
Hopefully your machines and hardware appreciate the finer adjustments and wear better over time as a result.
Happy typing!
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The last adjustment I needed to make is sometimes called ring and cylinder. It moves the platen closer or further from the typebars. I think the rubber on the platen over time dried and shrunk a bit. I used this adjustment to move the platen closer in order to get a better type imprint. (note: you have to loosen two screws on each side of the carriage [4 screws] in the next photo before making this adjustment.)
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reply to u/Jbhusker at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1hk15pf/the_frenzy_continues_where_does_it_end/ on an old and rough looking Underwood No. 3 from 1927
The shipping price is suspicious as even Shopgoodwill wouldn't ship it for that low. I do notice some online sellers playing games between machine pricing and shipping. They'll often price a machine lower than "market" and then make up for it with an astronomical shipping price. This example seems to have gone the other way, which may help some novice typewriter purchasers who wouldn't understand that this is a 30# machine.
What's going on in this example does present some interesting analysis of the current market.
Possibilities driving the price here: - Week before Christmas and someone is burning spare cash on a decorative/nostalgic present at the last minute. (I've noticed prices on everything going up in the last two months at a greater than usual clip. I suspect things will come crashing down a bit after the New Year.) - It was photographed well. - Included a video of it actually typing as proof that it "works". - It has the look of having been cleaned up despite the look of old patina which was left to make the machine show its age. Look at the exterior screws which appear cleaned/refinished while portions of the exterior don't. In fact, the underlying servicer (Adam of Brooksaw Antiques) seems to specialize in servicing machines to working order but leaving lots of age and patina on them almost as if they're being aged up on purpose. They've got lots of examples on a variety of socials as well as presences on Etsy and Ebay, which speaks to some level of experience. Given the appearance of experience here, I'd bet the machine shows up in the condition it was shipped. - "New ink" decreases the stress of the buyer on finding it themself (potentially a $30-50 value to the customer) and it only cost the seller $2, because I'm dead certain they bought it in bulk. - The eBay reviews of this shop are stunning over 931 items. The lowest is a 4.9 out of 5, which I'm guessing is someone dinging them on shipping price from an earlier sale where they had more realistic shipping numbers on large standards. - "Military Sand" may possibly have been misinterpreted as this being a mill. It is a great marketing name for the color in any case. - I would guess that the purchaser is buying this as a single showpiece for nostalgia's sake. They're getting the bonus that it works. (Like Kirk, I'm not a big fan of the refurb paint on these.) - Its the week before Christmas...
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Laïcité ([la.i.si.te]; 'secularism')[1][2] is the constitutional principle of secularism in France. Article 1 of the French Constitution is commonly interpreted as the separation of civil society and religious society.
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As Ted Munk has commented on these before, rare is a reach. They're uncommon primarily because they didn't manufacture as many of these as they did of the American Quiet-Riters (or Office- or Letter-Riters). I would suspect it's stamped as made in Great Britain (though actually made in Scotland) after American manufacture moved there in the late 50s/early 60s where they only made them for a short time before switching over to more plastic bodied machines. Probably has a serial number starting with ERP on the frame near the ribbon cup. It's essentially a Quiet-Riter made in Scotland with smooth paint rather than crinkle. Surely some of the manufacturing process and materials will be slightly different/cheaper.
There may be a completist Remington collector who might pay over $100 for it, but I wouldn't think you'd have an easy time getting over $75 for this unless it's in excellent/serviced condition, particularly when ubiquitous QRs with sturdier cases can be had for $10-25 in similar condition.
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The Advance also uses a mechanism which rotates at 2x the speed of some of the others with the stated intent of being geared towards western alphabet writing, as opposed to Japanese / Asian logograpic writing systems where the user picks up their pencil tip more frequently.
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Adam Gitner (20 December 2024). LATIN WORD OF THE YEAR 2024 – VOX ANNI MMXXIV. Parerga . Retrieved 20 December 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/12yyj<br /> https://parerga.hypotheses.org/3568
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He told Ken Smith, author of "Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films, 1945-1970" (1999): "Mental hygiene films boiled down to a compromise between real life and life as it ought to be."
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Ginny in his "Are You Popular?" (1947) finds that "girls who 'park' in cars are not really popular."
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Mr. Peshak started making films for Glenview, Ill.-based Coronet Instructional Films. The company was started by David Smart, the founder of Esquire magazine.
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The Atlantic. Review of Plutarch’s Lives, by Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden, and Plutarch. January 1860. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1860/01/plutarchs-lives/627616/
Some excellent quotes and evidence for the importance of Plutarch's Lives, almost more so than the importance of this particular translation.
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It has been well said, that “ Plutarch’s Lives is the book for those who can nobly think and dare and do.”
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But, as a necessary consequent of this spirit, as its implied complement in the balance of human nature, we find, as a distinct trait in the lives of many of the manliest ancients, an occasional prevalence of a spirit of despondency, a recognition of the ultimate weakness of man when brought by himself face to face with the wall of opposing circumstance and the resistless force of Fate. Will is strong, but the powers outside the will are stronger. Manliness may not fail, but man himself may be broken. Neither the teachings of natural religion, nor the doctrines of philosophy, nor the support of a sound heart are sufficient for man in the crisis of uttermost trial. Without something beyond these, higher than these, without a conscious dependence on Omnipotence, man must sink at last under the buffets of adverse fortune. Take the instances of these great men in Plutarch, and look at the end of their lives. How many of them are simple confessions of defeat! Themistocles sacrifices to the gods, drinks poison, and dies. Demosthenes takes poison to save himself from falling into the hands of his enemies. Cicero proposes to slay himself in the house of Ciesar, and is murdered only through want of resolution to kill himself. Brutus says to the friend who urges him to fly,—“Yes, we must fly; yet not with our feet, but with our hands,” and falls upon his sword. Cato lies down calmly at night, reads Plato on the Soul, and then kills himself; while, after his death, the people of Utica cry out with one voice that he is “the only free, the only undefeated man.” It may be said that even in suicide these men displayed the manliness of their tempers. True, but it was the manliness of the deserter who runs the risk of being shot for the sake of avoiding the risks and fatigues of service in war.15
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This spirit of seltdependence was the grandest feature of Greek and Roman heathenism; and it is in this, if in anything, that a superiority of character is manifest in the men of ancient times.
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Nations calling themselves Christian are still governed on heathen principles. Christianity has been for the most part perverted and misunderstood. The grossest errors have been taught in its name, are still taught in its name. Falsehood has claimed the authority of truth, and its claim has been granted, The stream which flowed out pure from its source has been caught in foul cisterns, has been led into narrow channels, has been made stagnant in desolate pools and wide-spread weedy marshes. The doctrine of Christ has had thus far in the world but very few hearers who have understood it. Many a modern creed might well go back to heathenism for improvement.
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He is said to quote two hundred and fifty authors, some eighty of whom are among those whose works have been wholly or partly lost.
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It has taken its place on the clockshelf, with only the Bible, the “Pilgrim's Progress,” and the Almanac for its companions. No other classic author, with, perhaps, the single exception of Æsop, has been so widely read in modern times; and the popular knowledge of the men of Greece and Rome is derived more from Plutarch than from all other ancient authors put together.
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But the chief interest of this translation at the present day, except what it possesses as a storehouse of good mother-English, comes from the fact that it was one of the books of Shakespeare’s moderate library, and one which he had thoroughly read, as is manifest from the use that he made of it in his own works, especially in "Coriolanus,” “Julius Ca;sar,” and “Antony and Cleopatra.”
Shakespeare's versions of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Anthony and Cleopatra origininate from Plutarch's Lives by way of the English translations of Thomas North who was translating from the French version of Jacques Amyrot.
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The learned Dr. Guy Patin says: “On dit que M. de Meziriac avoit corrigé dans son Amyot huit mille fautes, et qu’Amyot n’avoit pas de bons exemplaires, ou qu’il n’avoit pas bien entendu le Grec de Plutarque.”3
Translation: It is said that M. de Meziriac had corrected eight thousand mistakes in his Amyot, and that Amyot did not have good copies, or that he had not understood Plutarch's Greek well.
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The book is interesting from Dryden’s connection with it, but still more so — considering how slight that connection was, his only contribution to it being the Life of Plutarch—from the fact, that the translations of some of the Lives were made by famous men, as that of Alcibiades by Lord Chancellor Somers, and that of Alexander by the excellent John Evelyn ; while others were made by men who, if not famous, are at least well remembered by the lovers of the literature of the time,—as that of Numa by Sir Paul Rycaut, the Turkey merchant, and the continuer of Dr. Johnson's favorite history of the Turks,—that of Otho by Pope’s friend, the medical poet, Dr. Garth,—that of Solon by Creech, the translator of Lucretius,—that of Lysander by the Honorable Charles Boyle, whose name is preserved in the alcohol of Bentley's classical satire, — and that of Themistocles by Edward, the son of Sir Thomas Browne.
Dryden didn't translate Plutarch himself, but edited it and relied on translation by others, including his friends and acquaintances.
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his 1683 edition of Plutarch's Lives Translated From the Greek by Several Hands in which he introduced the word 'biography' to English readers;
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John Dryden apparently coined the English word 'biography' in his 1683 edition of Plutarch's Lives.
Does the OED bear this out?
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R(h)odomontade From the Life of Cato the Elder, the word means pretentious bragging. Its roots reach deep into Italian epics no one reads anymore. Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso has a character named Rodomonte, whose name means “he who rolls away mountains.” Apparently, Rodomonte swells with braggadocio throughout the poem, and the English language likewise now contains not one, but two Italian words for prideful boasting.
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What’s the Best Translation of Plutarch’s Lives? – grammaticus by [[grammaticus]] on 2020-09-23
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μοι δυσκολώτερον ἦν εἰπεῖν ἢ πρᾶξαι It is harder for me to say it than to do it.
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How to Study. 16mm, Instructional film. Coronet Instructional Films, 1946. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRK70kyaWOI.
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Similar to similar ones by Solari.
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Typewriter Video Series - Episode 59: Tray Table Typing Hacks by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
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"Any skill [typing] can be a valuable asset to a man."—Ed Asner, 1975, The Army Reports #51, Periscope Film #27844 (at 11:16)
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ELEMENTARY TYPING <br /> via Periscope Film #15494
Elementary Typing. 16 mm, Instructional film. Periscope Film, #15494, 1971. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyoPu_ASw.<br /> running time: 00:12:06
Produced by Moreland-Latchford Productions, Ltd this informational film from 1971 titled “Elementary Typing” teaches the basics of becoming a good typist. The film features a manual Typemaster, a trade name used by Underwood as far back as the 1930s. This version of the machine featured both red and black ribbons. An electric version is seen at 9:00.
The film is broken down into different sections that focus on different elements of typing from the rhythmic beat of typing to optimal hand positioning as well as how to set up a typewriter. “Elementary Typing” is part of a larger film series related to the art of typing with other titles including “Posture and the Keyboard,” “First Step Typing,” “Machine Techniques,” and “Remedial Typing.” Advisors for the creation of the film include James Treliving Commercial Coordinator North York Board of Education, J.T. Albani East York Board of Education, Sheila Wright Etobicoke Board of Education, and Ronald Thelander Director of Audio-Visual Aids Metropolitan Separate School Board, Toronto. In addition, the film was directed by Rod Maxwell and written by Robert Browning and featured Alex Veltman as the cameraman, Carl Connell as editor, Joe Hayward as production head, and James McCormick as executive producer.
Pink illustrated typewriter on navy blue background (0:09). Outline of topics covered (0:17). A: early rhythm and reading – metronome and hands typing in the background (0:22). Aerial view of hands typing on an 197X Underwood Typemaster model typewriter (0:42). Camera pans words typed on a page (1:27). Close-up of letters being printed onto a page (1:36). Woman sitting at desk typing quickly (2:24). B: Paper Insertion – close-up of typewriter and hand setting the paper guide at the correct place on the paper table (2:35). Explanation of correct form and technique for holding and inserting paper (2:58-4:23). Explanation of paper removal (4:26). Badminton player returning various shots (4:41). Close-up of hands on the typewriter emphasizing the art of positioning (5:07). C: The Shift – explanation of the shift key (5:15-6:30). D: The Carriage Return – close-up of the device (6:32). The woman types and uses the carriage return (6:46-9:00). The Electric Typewriter – comparison between 197X Underwood Type Master manual model and Underwood 765 Type Master electric model typewriter (9:04). Difference between typing strategies (10:03). Benefits of using an electric machine (10:20). Closing credits (11:35).
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World's fastest typist in typewriter - Stella Pajunas
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Typing with a handkerchief covering the keyboard such that the handkerchief doesn't move.
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Ron "Typewriter" Mingo, World's Fastest Typist
Typing letter for letter, word for word, or phrase for phrase.
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Archaeologist Discovers Two Neolithic Stone Circles in England, Supporting a 'Sacred Arc' Theory by [[Margherita Bassi]]
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I haven't researched where the color-coding thing started, though I suspect content creators/influencers online in the last decades as a means of making their content "pretty" rather than necessarily functional.
Historically commonplaces were based on huge varieties of topics/subject headings, so colors and symbols were not frequently used. Most who needed greater organization or search capabilities indexed their commonplaces. One of the most popular means was detailed by philosopher John Locke in 1685. Here's some pointers to his work in this area in my own digital commonplace using Hypothesis: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=tag%3A%22commonplace+books%22+tag%3A%22John+Locke%22
reply to u/_cold_one at https://old.reddit.com/r/commonplacebook/comments/1hhavye/20_topics_colour_coding/
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Welcome to the Royal KMM club! Seems like lots of these have been posted in the last day including one by u/betternatured and another by u/the-other-gusta along with a very similar Royal KMG by u/Jacki-san.
The serial number puts yours down as a KMM with an 11 inch platen manufactured in 1945. Cross reference: https://typewriterdatabase.com/royal.72.typewriter-serial-number-database
Manual: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RoyalKMM.pdf
These were really popular and ubiquitous, standard (large desktop) typewriters in the mid-century that were the workhorse of many offices. Because they were so common and so heavy, they only go for $5-25 in the used market in either unknown or marginal condition. If they're cleaned up and well-serviced they can go for more with a cap of around $300-400 depending on the level of restoration. Some with special features (like special typefaces) or provenance may go for more.
The Royal KMM was known to have been used by writers including: John Ashberry, Harry Ashmore, Russell Baker, Ray Bradbury, Richard Bratigan, Richard Brooks, Pearl S. Buck, Johnny Carson, Norman Corwin, Frank Herbert, Ken Kesey, G.W. Lee, Harper Lee, Ursula K. LeGuin, David McCullough, Margaret Mead, Grangland Rice, and Dorothy Parker. This was also the model famously used by Angela Landsbury's character on the TV show Murder, She Wrote.
Depending on your level of typewriter knowledge try out some of the following short films which will also provide some tips, tricks, and maintenance advice common in the era of your machine:
- Basic Typing: Methods. Vol. MN-1512a. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztyzGit1dTI
- Basic Typing: Machine Operation. Vol. MN-1512b. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-REJEArnjE
- Advanced Typing: Shortcuts. Vol. MN-1512c. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJfCfqgsX0
- Advanced Typing: Duplicating and Manuscript. Vol. MN-1512d. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ve5JnTUzvo
- Maintenance Of Office Machines. Vol. MN-1513. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdxgkxKAKo
Happy Typing!
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The markets and level of ubiquity of these items in their heyday are so dramatically different that this is certainly an apples and oranges comparison.
However, if you want to compare the artist/users of the instrument to their machines, which is a way of potentially intuiting a potential answer to your question (one which is highly subjective), you might go by who was using particular typewriters of the time. Here's some data to consider: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/typers.html
For that rough era in American-made machines, you'll see peak engineering/manufacturing in the 1950s out of the Smith-Corona Super Silent, the Remington Quiet-Riter, and the Royal Quiet De Luxe. Design, touch, and tuning can all be such subjective measures here so as to heavily Muddy (the) Waters ('52 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top/'58 Fender Telecaster) on style, quality, and popularity amongst the cognoscenti. Peak quality in the 60s had broadly moved to post-war Germany and Italy with machines from Olympia (SM3, 4, 5, 7, etc.) and Olivetti respectively.
For my personal money, in American machines of the time, I love the design and performance of my well-tuned, and mostly restored 1950 Royal KMG. However, the current market certainly wouldn't indicate a broader beloved status for these the way you'll see for Stratocasters. (You'll also find some horribly maintained and un-tuned machines out there on the market, which is why so much of the antique and vintage typewriter market pricing is so wildly out of whack.)
A separate flavor of question certainly, but if you're looking for a solid performing typewriter to pair aesthetically and temporally with a '64 Strat, I'd go with a Royal FP ('57-62) (which came in Royaltone or Pearl Dark Gray smooth, Royaltone or Pearl Light Gray smooth, Willow Green smooth, Sea Blue smooth, Cameo Pink smooth (Petal Pink) , Brushed Aluminum, Sandstone smooth, and Coral Rose) or the smaller Royal Futura 800 ('58-'63).
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When it comes to some of the older manual typewriters, condition is king and a big determinant of price. For the budget range you're in, you're more likely to get something in mediocre shape that's going to require some work: cleaning, repairs, parts, other.
Your best bet is to go to a repair shop that sells machines, put your hands on them, try them out, ask lots of questions, then buy your favorite. Your time is worth money and productivity, so buy something you like out of the gate and you'll save a lot in the long run. You'll probably be happier and better off in the long run with something in the £200-400 range. It will also give you something you can start using right away to get your work done rather than faffing about.
Try shops from this list: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html
I'd generally endorse most of the advice on models you'll find in these sources which are geared specifically toward writers, all three sources have lots experience and reasonable bona fides to make such recommendations. (Though they do tend toward some of the more expensive portables rather than the sturdier and more economical standard machines.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9dXflhDed0<br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKMt-aCHZZk<br /> https://typewriterreview.com/2020/01/10/top-10-writerly-typewriters/
Beyond this Just My Typewriter has a few short videos that'll give you a crash course on Typewriter 101: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJtHauPh529XYHI5QNj5w9PUdi89pOXsS
u/jbhusker's advice is solid if you prefer that sort of machine instead.
reply to u/ArcherNF at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1hdgte4/looking_for_a_recommendation/
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Utopian Civic-Mindedness: RobertMaynard Hutchins, MortimerAdler, and the Great BooksEnterprise
Born, Daniel. “Utopian Civic-Mindedness: Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, and the Great Books Enterprise.” In Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace, edited by DeNel Rehberg Sedo, 81–100. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308848_5.
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After Pope John declared the Peace on Earth(Pacem in Terris) encyclical of 1963, Hutchins called on the fellows ofthe institute to focus their efforts on conflict and conflict resolution.
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Only at St John’s College, where Adler’s friend Scott Buchananbecame president, was there instituted what Harry Ashmore calls a‘hundred-proof Great Books curriculum’.
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In the first volume of his autobiography, Philosopher atLarge, Adler reminisced:During the late forties and early fifties, I was frequently asked by oneinstitution or another to meet with a curriculum committee whichhad been set up to reform the collegiate course of study. On suchoccasions, I laid out a set of negative conditions which I regarded asprerequisite to any reform aimed in the right direction ... The condi-tions were as follows: (1) there should be no vocational training ofany sort; (2) there should be no electives, no majors or minors, nospecialization in subject matter; (3) there should be no division ofthe faculty into professors competent in one department of learn-ing rather than another; (4) no member of the faculty should beunprepared to teach the course of study as a whole; (5) no textbooksor manuals should be assigned as reading material for the students;(6) not more than one lecture a week should be given to the studentbody; (7) there should be no written examination.33
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what mightbe taken as the symbolic passing of the torch from Mortimer Adler toOprah Winfrey, a number of the Penguin classics chosen by Oprah forher Book Club have carried on their covers the seal with the words,‘Recommended for Discussion by the Great Books Foundation’.
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the news. It is therefore ironic that the present Life feature ... shouldhave so mortician-like an air – as though Professor Adler and hisassociates had come to bury and not to praise Plato and other greatmen.The ‘great ideas’ whose headstones are alphabetically displayedabove the coffin-like filing boxes have been extracted from the greatbooks in order to provide an index tool for manipulating the booksthemselves. By means of this index the books are made ready forimmediate use. May we not ask how this approach to the content andconditions of human thought differs from any other merely verbaland mechanized education in our time?
A young man named Marshall McLuhan, having glimpsed the photo shoot in Life, wrote with scathing insight in his first book, The Mechanical Bride (1951):
The services of Dr. Hutchins and Professor Adler to education are justly celebrated. They have by their enthusiasm put education in
McLuhan analogizes the tabbed dividers of a card index to tombstones and the card indexes to coffins!
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reframing a crucial question: is commitmentto the Great Books the enemy of progressive education (the scholarlyconsensus that has largely followed Dewey), or in fact a foundation forit?
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Robert Maynard Hutchins, Adler’s pal and president of the university,was good at making broad gestures and sponsoring big projects. He wasthe man who had eliminated the university’s varsity football program,and then several years later approved of the federal government’srequest to locate its Manhattan Project under the empty Stagg Fieldstadium – the site of the world’s first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
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The photo celebratedthe making of the Syntopicon. This massive index of Western thought,which in conception had grown godlike out of the head of MortimerAdler, was intended to help readers navigate their way through theGreat Books.
Interesting that he reduces hundreds of thousands of hours of work to "grown godlike out of the head of Mortimer Adler..."
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Sedo, DeNel Rehberg, ed. Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308848.
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Stanley Kubrick photos - Of the more than 300 assignments Kubrick did for Look (1946-1951), a little more than 100 are in Library of Congress collection; other Kubrick material may be found in the Museum of the City of New York (see Related Resources). Because of interest expressed in Kubrick's work, all Look jobs with which Stanley Kubrick was associated are cataloged, with descriptions focusing on negatives that have been printed.
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If there is enough room (at least 1.2mm), I use micro paracord to replace drawbands. It has no flex or stretch, can have its knot sealed with a little heat, is tested to 100lbs, and is pretty cheap for more than you’ll probably ever need. I have used Atwood micro cord purchased from Amazon for my projects.
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Words on ammo in CEO shooting echo common phrase on insurer tactics: Delay, deny, defend by [[Tom Murphy]]
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“Thoughts and prior authorizations!” wrote another user.
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“I would be happy to help look for the shooter but vision isn’t covered under my healthcare plan,” one comment read on Instagram.
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‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ becomes Amazon bestseller after words carved into bullets used to killed UnitedHealthcare CEO by [[Kelly Rissman]]
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The 2010 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it has become a bestseller on Amazon in the week since the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.The book’s title is reminiscent of the three words carved into the bullet casings — “deny,” “defend,” “depose” — found on the Midtown Manhattan street where 50-year-old Thompson was fatally shot on December 4. Luigi Mangione, 26, has been charged with murder in connection to Thompson’s death.
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Armstrong, Dorsey. Medieval World. 1st ed. The Great Courses 8280. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, LLC, 2009. https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/medieval-world.
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If you were going to start a blog about zettelkasten as a sales funnel....
Circling back around, I notice he mentions Matt Giaro who teaches marketing and conversion online: https://mattgiaro.com/
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“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
Mark Twain's verbiage on combinatorial creativity: "mental kaleidoscope".
As quoted from 1906 in the 1912 in the third volume of Mark Twain: A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine
quote and verification via Quote Investigator at https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/05/08/new-idea/
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