It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional earthling doctors couldn't see these causes at all, or even imagine them. One thing Trout said that Rosewater liked very much was that there really were vampires and werewolves and goblins and … Continue reading Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension
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The Master and the Model 8
During his lifetime, the Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (15 May 1891 – 10 March 1940), was best known for his stage plays than he was for his novels and short stories. Stalin was known to be fond of his play Days of the Turbins (Дни Турбиных) (1926), which was based on the novel The … Continue reading The Master and the Model 8
Hitch-Crock
After watching Hitchcock on DVD all I can say is, I wish I'd spent my money on a real Hitchcock movie. While Anthony Hopkins got the voice right (most of the time) he looked ridiculous in his fat suit. This poorly conceived nonsense was not just a waste of his talent, it was a waste of … Continue reading Hitch-Crock
The Third Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (* 6 June 1875 – † 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (principally for his epic first novel Buddenbrooks). The Magic Mountain, which Mann began writing in 1912, began as a novella; as a humorous, ironic, satirical … Continue reading The Third Mann
Paddington Pair
According to The Huffington Post and other online sources, children's author Michael Bond used an Olympia SM9 to write several of his Paddington Bear stories. In January 2014, the typewriter was shown at an exhibition “A Bear Named Paddington” at the Museum of London: The original typewriter that Michael Bond used to write "Paddington at Work" and "Paddington Goes … Continue reading Paddington Pair
Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger (b. 29 March 1895 – d. 17 February 1998) was a German writer and philosopher. In addition to his political essays, novels and diaries, he is well known for Storm of Steel, an account of his experience serving with the Imperial German Army on the Western Front. In the first week of January … Continue reading Ernst Jünger
Elizabeth the Second
"LONDON in the 1950s and in a rented room, a dark-haired Australian bends over her Oliver typewriter. She wears a woollen cap and hugs a hot-water bottle. There's a shilling in the slot for heating but it is bitterly cold. Elizabeth Harrower, however, is in a different space, writing about the heat of Sydney and … Continue reading Elizabeth the Second
A Cracker from Malacca
I had planned to call this post A Clacker from Malacca, until I found out "clacker" is Australian slang for something not very complimentary. I settled instead for "a cracker" which in the British vernacular means "a fine example of something". Two barely legible stamped ink impressions on either side of the ribbon cover of this … Continue reading A Cracker from Malacca
The Rule of SM3s
They say things happen in threes. The day after WordsAreWinged blogged about visiting a previously undiscovered antique shop and finding an Olympia SM3, the same thing happened to me. On my latest trip to the nearby town of Guildford to check out the antique stores, I paid my first ever visit to Annie's Vintage Wondrland ... Waiting to greet me, was this unassuming … Continue reading The Rule of SM3s
