http://www.grailcode.com/archives/chasing-the-holy-grail-of-writing-technology The Holy Grail in history and in modern culture Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:29:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/chasing-the-holy-grail-of-writing-technology#comment-14183 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:07:53 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/chasing-the-holy-grail-of-writing-technology#comment-14183 [...] When I was growing up, writers wrote with typewriters. As I mentioned earlier, I was an early and enthusiastic partisan of computer word processors, but I was odd that way. You could write with a computer, but you’d better not let anyone know you hadn’t used a typewriter, or your tenth-grade Social Studies teacher would give you an automatic F even though he hadn’t mentioned anything about that rule when he gave you the assignment. (A note to all the young people out there: The people who tell you that you’ll remember your school days for the rest of your life are absolutely right.) [...] […] When I was growing up, writers wrote with typewriters. As I mentioned earlier, I was an early and enthusiastic partisan of computer word processors, but I was odd that way. You could write with a computer, but you’d better not let anyone know you hadn’t used a typewriter, or your tenth-grade Social Studies teacher would give you an automatic F even though he hadn’t mentioned anything about that rule when he gave you the assignment. (A note to all the young people out there: The people who tell you that you’ll remember your school days for the rest of your life are absolutely right.) […]

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