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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.