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made the typewriter indispensable to every aspect of
mechanical industry. A modern battleship needs dozens of
typewriters for ordinary operations. An army needs more
typewriters than medium and light artillery pieces, even in the
field, suggesting that the typewriter now fuses the functions of
the pen and sword.
But the effect of the typewriter is not all of this kind. If
the typewriter has contributed greatly to the familiar forms of
the homogenized specialism and fragmentation that is print
culture, it has also caused an integration of functions and the
creation of much private independence. G. K. Chesterton
demurred about this new independence as a delusion,
remarking that “women refused to be dictated to and went out
and became stenographers.” The poet or novelist now
composes on the typewriter. The typewriter fuses composition