But there’s something about the sharp staccato sound of my Olympia Report Deluxe–like successive volleys of rifle shots rather than the mouselike scribble-scrabble of the keyboard pad–that I feel reluctant to abandon.

Actually, that typewriter, my Olympia Report Deluxe, or rather Deluxes (I have three of them because they’re no longer manufactured, and I need one for backup and one to cannibalize for parts) are the real reason I’ve rejected switching to a computer for so long.