I've realized that with all of my talk, and thinking, about what I am obsessed with there is one major common factor across all of them: my propensity to want (or need) to do things perfectly. It is both a blessing and a curse and usually involves over-thinking things. The typewriter is a very fitting instrument for practicing the art of perfection. I find myself really having to concentrate on every letter being typed. There is no easy solution for a mistyped character (the delete button). There is no red line which magically appears underneath a misspelled word. It almost seems as if words have more personal value when they are manually typewritten.
I'll keep trying.

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