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To Extend.

A Thought by Luke Cowling.

I'd like to share with you an excerpt from an article in this month's New Yorker, and whilst the piece falls under the humour column, I've extracted a piece from that article that I found really thought provoking. 

Don't get me wrong, if the entire piece is read then the attempt at humour is quite obvious and very enjoyable. It's designed to be a tongue in cheek analysis of what your writing utensil says about you as a person, but there's a snippet that I really enjoyed at the beginning of the piece. 



It's about your identity as a writer, and how not only your work speaks for you, but how you build it. This is something I think on often, how not every person who wants to write has the utensils they want or need, and how these barriers affect our art. Anyway, I wont clog up the quote any longer. 


"Cromac McCarthy purchased a powder blue Olivetti Lettera 32 mechanical typewriter in a Tennessee pawnshap, in 1963, for fifty dollars, and used it for the next five decades, producing an estimated five million words tickling its ivories. An author's instrument is more than a tool; it is an extension of his very soul . With that in mind, choose your weapon carefully." - Dana Schwartz.

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