Remulac, a small town in france

What I really need is a typewriter; an electric typewriter

At—and I’m not at all sure about this—around 14 years old, I stumbled upon an ad for an electric typewriter. It was an ad in a magazine or something. There was a coupon you could fill out and mail in. A Smith-Corona.

If you filled out the coupon, they would send you the typewriter. If you didn’t like it, you could send it back within 30 days. If you decided to keep it, you could pay in three instalments of, let’s say, $89 each.

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Smooth and creamy paper, a real pen

“The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.” – 1984, George Orwell

Apparently, Winston took his time before finally launching into his diary. So have I.

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