http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/typewriter-of-the-moment-e-e-cummings/ Striving for accuracy in history, economics, geography, education, and a little science Sun, 26 May 2013 06:45:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/typewriter-of-the-moment-e-e-cummings/#comment-252462 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:58:13 +0000 http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/?p=20683#comment-252462 So, maybe cummings had weak pinkies. That would make sense. I think it was more likely out of his intentions to change the conventions, for poetic reasons. Isn’t he the guy who wrote an entire book without using the letter “e,” at one point?

]]> http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/typewriter-of-the-moment-e-e-cummings/#comment-252444 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:16:43 +0000 http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/?p=20683#comment-252444 … But the labor involved in pressing the shift key would certainly represent an easy answer to why no caps (my iPad, on the other hand, insisted on adding caps to this post unless I exerted extra effort to uncap. This would have driven him crazier.).

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