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Years ago, when I used to hit a key on my old typewriter, I could follow and even explain the mechanical
Now, when I hit a key on my computer keyboard, my knowledge of the process that makes a letter appear
on my screen is hazy, to say the least, not to mention the process that transfers it to paper.
How this sentence I'm now writing gets preserved on my USB stick and in what form is a mystery to me.
If my rhetoric is, as Freedman suggests, "utopian," my experience in working on the archive is anything
One of the great pleasures of my time in graduate school was acquiring, piece by piece, the entire 24
for those books—in the years just before the creation of the World Wide Web—gave me a reason to leave my
still had many secondhand bookstores, and sometimes travel to other cities in the hope of completing my
Whitman in the early 1990s, and it took more than ten years and at least a thousand dollars to complete my
I have sometimes used the while working on scholarly essays when I am away from my home institution.
Most of my graduate students are still surprised to find Whitman wrote a novel and published fiction