Machine Art To those of us who type with two
fingers and a thumb the news of Senorita Montserrat Escarvidol's prodigious feats on her machine is a further humiliation. A typist in the Barcelona police department, she employs her spare time by tapping out reproductions of old masters, using only the normal complement of keys and seventeen differently coloured ribbons. It is a lucrative hobby, for naturally enough there are many people who are anxious, if only for the novelty, to possess a Vandyck painted in hyphens and semi-colons and this ingenious woman is the sole artist in the world who can provide one. Would that I could emulate her, but, although for many years my " copy " has been lavishly spattered with intruding fractional signs, superimposed letters and redundant brackets, never have I produced anything remotely resembling Gainsborough's " Duchess of Devonshire."
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