IN OLD BABYLON. "Confound it," growled Ptuthless Manocossazus, the celebrated Babylonian author, "since the publishers have insisted on receiving typewritten manuscripts it seems to me that my labours are twice as great as they used to be. Blamed if I wouldn't rather turn out my copy with the good old hammer and chisel. These new fangled inventions make creative literary work eeem eß* tirely too mechanical."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 254, 24 October 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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66IN OLD BABYLON. "Confound it," growled Ptuthless Manocossazus, the celebrated Babylonian author, "since the publishers have insisted on receiving typewritten manuscripts it seems to me that my labours are twice as great as they used to be. Blamed if I wouldn't rather turn out my copy with the good old hammer and chisel. These new fangled inventions make creative literary work eeem eß* tirely too mechanical." Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 254, 24 October 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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