auctioning off his typewriter. Proceeds will benefit the Santa Fe Institute.
A quote from the authentication letter that he wrote:
“It has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station hose. … I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not published. Including all drafts and correspondence I would put this at about five million words over a period of 50 years.”
Wow.
Ha, just saw this in the paper a bit ago on the train home from work. CM sounds like a good guy.