Thee typer is for sale… maybe we could all pitch in…
Cormac McCarthy’s Olivetti typer is going up for auction, so sayeth the NYTimes. They’re expecting to fetch 20K for the thing, which means we’d only have to sell 150,000 stickers… or something. Anyway, here’s the supa sweet money quote:
Glenn Horowitz, a rare-book dealer who is handling the auction for Mr. McCarthy, said: “When I grasped that some of the most complex, almost otherworldly fiction of the postwar era was composed on such a simple, functional, frail-looking machine, it conferred a sort of talismanic quality to Cormac’s typewriter. It’s as if Mount Rushmore was carved with a Swiss Army knife.”
December 1st, 2009 at 3:06 pm
This is what Indiana Jones was really looking for in the Last Crusade.
December 1st, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I say we butstertonians pitch in and buy it…
THEN we let Smithhammer and Salty have a booze fueled fight of some sort for it.
A fight or duel that is best left to the wise Wookie to construct.
And of course the rest of us will drink and bet on the winner.
I mean this could be the highlight of some of our winters.
(especially those silly purist that dont fish the egg hatch.)
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:47 am
I’m selling my original circa 1972 Kodak Instamatic camera for only 19k.
Any takers?
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:03 am
I hand write all my shit on Legal pads….then re-cycle the cardboard backing.
Maybe I should dig them out of the bin…put them on E-Bay…like the Jesus Potatochip
I might be able to get some gas money for my next FF trip…
December 5th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Mark twain hand wrote Huck Finn. If Cormac has carved rushmore with a swiss army knife, Mark Twain Dug the grand canyon with a plastic spork.
December 7th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
survey says….. a sweet quarter of a mil! holy luddite.