A2 - Sunday, April 3, 1983 - North Shore News

by Bob Hunter

Bob’s just not with it

IT’S ONE of the most dreaded moments of the
year. I put it off until I can no longer handle the
guilt of seeing my beloved editor squinting
through an infra-red lens in an effort to decipher
the faint markings on the pages I hand in.

Time to change the

You'd think, therefore,
that I'd be eager to méve on
to word processors and
computers, escaping the
brutal world of ribbons and
type bars and keys that go
clickity-click.

‘Age of

Most of my old newsaper
cronies ve entered the
ideo Display
Terminals and seem to have
worked out comfortable
emotional and psychological

night, but that’s another
story.

I guess this is my destiny:
to be out of phase with my
tame. All thumbs, but afraid
of Pac Man.

All I can say is this:
writing’s like being a gun-
slinger. When a man’s hot,
he wants to smell the acrid»
stench of metal smouldering

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typewriter ribbon again.

This is an experience that
always has the same ending.
It reminds me of _ the
recurmng Peanuts cartoon in
which Lucy yanks the foot-
ball away from Charlie
Brown just as he’s ready to
kick it, but he always comes
back for more, hopmg that
things will change.

They don’t. Thus, as I
gingerly sit myself in front of
my battered old Underwood
portable and lift the top part,
exposing the grinning teeth
of the keys and the two
"mocking eyes of the ribbon
spools, I always say to
myself, “Big fella, this time
it’s gonna work.”

It doesn't.

‘Within minutes, I have
already dropped one

doohickey or another down .

into the rat trap of the
machine’s innards. A spool
will have escaped from my
fingers. and wobbled across
the floor to the other side of
the room, leaving miles of
hideously messy ribbon
strewn in its wake.

Failing cither of these
events, the ribbon will cling
to the machine as if uf-
willing to end a _ happy
symbiotic relationship.
Invariably, I put the new
ribbon on the wrong spool. I
usually don’t discover this
until I have already put the
lid back on, smearing the
cover with inky fingerprints.

At least half an hour has

in his hands. Y*know?
gone by and here I am, once ,
again, beating my little fists
against the stained tabletop,
cursing Gutenberg for
having displaced the quill as
literature’s rightful tool.

I'm one of these people
who don’t have any |
mechanical knack what-
soever. I once met a guy —
real weird, this one — who
examined the veins of my _
wrist and concluded that I -.
had not reincarnated since -
before the Industrial
Revolution. :

“You probably can’t relate
to machinery at all,” he said. =
I gave him a quarter. :

It’s as good an excuse as «
any. At Kelvin High School,
I scored the

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probably never master.

Like getting the dish-
washing machine to com-
plete its cycle. Starting an
outboard engine. Attaching
jumper cables to the right
battery terminals. Running a
slide projector. Setting the
toaster so that nothing
burns. Operating a Philips
screwdriver.

It’s not that I particularly
miss performing these feats.
1 don't actually feel
deprived, at least not as long

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“But by using proper
procedures you can get over
the acceptance issuc and we
have been working ' very
successfully with the
Windsor kids and-sstaff.”
Marshall said.

The purpose of the in
(egration is so that the
school district can place the
handicapped students in the

‘floast) restrictive cn
vironment.”

“The whole of socicty has
recognizéd the nor
malhzation process and as
such there is much less fear
of the handicapped.”
Marshall caplained,

The assistant superin
tendent tw an ardent sup
porter of placing han
dicapped students tn) cn
vironments similar to the
“real world ”

“The handicapped peron
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participate in society as the
non -handtcapped person ©

But in these ames of
restraint, docs the school

tall

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