Comments on: shift freedom https://iwilldare.com/2003/12/shift-freedom/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:45:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: tomtom https://iwilldare.com/2003/12/shift-freedom/#comment-8651 Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:52:25 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=3753#comment-8651 I have a similar-looking “beauty” — I think mine is from the Paramount Typewriter Co. of Providence, RI or something like that. I found it in my grandma’s basement in excellent condition, still works, etc. Yours (like mine) is a Depression-era model, I think — probably mid-1930s. I was told that the lack of a number 1 key is a sure sign … a way to save on production costs, since you can just use the lower-case “L.” Mine doesn’t even have a right margin or an end-of-the-line bell!

The typewriter has been great for my fiction writing. By the very nature of the thing, you can’t edit on the fly as easily as with a computer or pen and paper. So, it’s provided me with some much-needed forward momentum. Plus, it’s so damn fun to THWACK the letters into the paper. Makes writing a lot more physical …

tomtom

]]> By: UH https://iwilldare.com/2003/12/shift-freedom/#comment-8650 Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:42:46 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=3753#comment-8650 All I can think of when I see it is “Ducky Daddles”.

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