Introduction : Ghosts and machines -- Archaeology: beginning at the end : Conclusion : Royal road test -- The archive of typewriting ; Typewriter nostalgia -- Assembly: typewriting's first impressions : Writing the truth -- Writing blind -- Clockwork boys and piano keys -- The last of the "firsts" -- Amanuensis: typewriting and dictation : Taking dictation -- The typewriter between -- Transylvanian typing -- The type-writer girl -- Remington priestesses -- Burroughs -- Nothing is true; everything is permitted -- Channelling Burroughs -- Authority: typewriting as discipline : Pen slavery -- Therbligs -- QWERTY -- Dvorak (or, In the navy) -- The poet's stave and bar -- Typewriting, identity, and truth -- The monkeys -- Barnyard politics -- Not an especially bright dog -- Under difficulties semi colon -- Bourgeois paper-bangers -- Acceleration: typewriting and speed : Rail road test -- Ten fingers talk -- On the (Royal) road -- Typewriters at war -- Electrification and the end of the grid -- The typewriter in the garden -- Aftermath : Typewriting after the typewriter.
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