Editing Typewriter (section)

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[[File:TheFaulknerPortable.jpg|thumb|[[William Faulkner]]'s [[Underwood Typewriter Company|Underwood]] Universal Portable in his office at [[Rowan Oak]], which is now maintained by the [[University of Mississippi]] in [[Oxford, Mississippi|Oxford]] as a museum]]
* [[William S. Burroughs]] wrote in some of his novels—and possibly believed—that "a machine he called the 'Soft Typewriter' was writing our lives, and our books, into existence", according to a book review in ''The New Yorker''. In the [[Naked Lunch (film)|1991 film adaptation]] of his 1959 novel ''[[Naked Lunch]]'', his typewriter is a living, insect-like entity (voiced by North American actor [[Peter Boretski]]) and actually dictates the book to him.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wershler-Henry|first=Darren Sean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38cd7wS1-RsC&q=burroughs|title=The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting|date=2007|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-4586-6|language=en}}</ref>
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] was accustomed to typing from awkward positions: "balancing his typewriter on his attic bed, because there was no room on his desk".<ref>Carpenter, Humphrey (1978). ''[[J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography]]'', Unwin Paperbacks p.207. {{ISBN|0 04 928039 2}}</ref> 
* [[Jack Kerouac]], a fast typist at 100 words per minute, typed his 1957 novel ''[[On the Road]]'' on a roll of paper so he would not be interrupted by having to change the paper. Within two weeks of starting to write ''On the Road'', Kerouac had one single-spaced paragraph, {{convert|120|ft}} long. Some scholars say the scroll was shelf paper; others contend it was a Thermal-fax roll; another theory is that the roll consisted of sheets of architect's paper taped together.<ref name=ja/> Kerouac himself stated that he used {{convert|100|ft|adj=on}} rolls of [[teletype]] paper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLpNKo09Xk|title = JACK KEROUAC on THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW with Steve Allen 1959|website = YouTube| date=12 January 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Don Marquis]] purposely used the limitations of a typewriter (or more precisely, a particular typist) in his ''[[archy and mehitabel]]'' series of newspaper columns, which were later compiled into a series of books. According to his literary conceit, a [[cockroach]] named "Archy" was a [[Reincarnation|reincarnated]] [[free verse|free-verse]] poet, who would type articles overnight by jumping onto the keys of a manual typewriter. The writings were typed completely in lower case, because of the cockroach's inability to generate the heavy force needed to operate the shift key. The lone exception is the poem "CAPITALS AT LAST" from ''archys life of mehitabel'', written in 1933.