When you pound the letters (and you do have to play them like piano keys) it makes a fabulous click-clack, tap-a-tap sound. Then when you reach the end of a line: Ziiip...Tap, tap, tap-a-tap. N is most fond of how it feels when you manually press your words onto a clean sheet of paper.
Tonight, after Thai food and no luck locating a tiny tricycle anywhere, we came home with our new typewriter and took turns carefully banging out sentences (there's no backspace key to erase mistakes). We practiced saying things like:
"This just in..."
Click-clack, clackety-clack, clack clack.
Then with a dramatic flourish to rip the paper from the roller: "Copy boy! Take it to the editor. It's ready to print."
I can't wait to get started on a mystery novel in which every family member contributes a few sentences as we go along. Here's how I'm thinking we should start it:
"It was a dark and stormy night. The only sound that could be heard over the howling wind was the click-clack, clackety-clack of the typewriter..."
This is a fun and more whimsical entry. I think I have a similar model in the attic, in a zippered case even. And of course I have the very old L.C. Smith Secretarial model I found in an antique store in Wisconsin...
ReplyDeleteThis was fun to read. I had a typewriter for years...always loved the sound of punching the letters.
ReplyDeleteIt's Snoopy's signature blue typewriter! Of *course* it's awesome ;) We've been looking for a mini one as a wedding-cake topper but alas, no dice.
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