My Wikipedia entry says that I ‘collect and repair vintage typewriters’; the very idea of it! The repairing, that is – a child of cack-handed epigones who never got over the ‘servant problem’, I wouldn’t know how to repair a potato for printing purposes, let alone a typewriter.

Will Self, “The Last Typewriter Engineer,” Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 – 2021 (2022)