Typings Culled From the Museum

Last month we had our most successful public typewriter event yet at the Albuquerque Museum, where hundreds of people had the opportunity to try their hand at a dozen typewriters we had brought. Check out the blog article for more details.

Just like with previous events, once the crowds have dispersed we are left to pack up our machines and collect the papers strewn across tables and left in carriages. I'm always enjoying the after-event reading of the culled typings, sometimes a day or two later, which has become for me a kind of private celebration of yet another opportunity to see the Venn Diagrams of typewriters and the public at large converge and overlap, if but for a brief moment.

Often times the typings are roughly done or barely legible with too slight of neophyte finger force upon keys, and too often riddled with repetitive hints of quick brown foxes and lazy dogs galore. Yet in the midst of the drivel are hints, barely perceptible perhaps, of the inner spirits of poets and writers struggling to be set free. With that in mind, I present to you the culled typings from this event. Enjoy.