people of forty years ago. It was supposed to.

     Eliot and Pound used the typewriter for a great variety of 
central effects in their poems. And with them, too, the 
typewriter was an oral and mimetic instrument that gave them 
the colloquial freedom of the world of jazz and ragtime. Most 
colloquial and jazzy of all Eliot’s poems, Sweeney Agonistes , in 
its first appearance in print, carried the note: “From Wanna Go 
Home Baby?”

     That the typewriter, which carried the Gutenberg 
technology into every nook and cranny of our culture and 
economy should, also, have given out with these opposite oral 
effects is a characteristic reversal. Such a reversal of form 
happens in all extremes of advanced technology, as with the 
wheel today.