Derek Hollenberg

The Old Man and The Book

You can tell a great deal about a person by listening to them work on a typewriter. The pace and force with which they strike the keys reveals much about their mood, disposition–even their view of the world. One particularly cold night, slow and steady ticks from a weathered Electromatic bounced around in the dark recesses of a cavernous home library, their dying echoes making the large room feel somehow lonelier than if it were empty.