type-pi

Updated: July 1, 2025

Sorting that type-pi was a job to which no one in the world but a printer can give the deserved sympathy. Heine, raking around in the cooling embers on my claim, had found several cases of pied type and a few odds and ends of printing equipment down under a piece of heavy tin roofing, the only thing salvaged from the wreckage. A committee of settlers came, emptied a little sack on the table.

Edith Eudora Kohl - Land of the Burnt Thigh