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   From: johnl@taugh.com   
      
   According to c186282  :   
   >> Even the hippie generation or whatever you want to call what followed the   
   >> Beats wasn't very literary.   
   >   
   >   Hmm ... how long since 'writers' actually WROTE - ink   
   >   on paper ? Quill pens ?   
   >   
   >   Since the 1930s they 'wrote' mostly on typewriters.   
      
   Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi" was written on a typewriter in   
   1883. It's not clear if he typed it himself or dictated it to a   
   secretary.   
      
      
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