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Hello. Yes, the typewriter concerto by Leroy Anderson. It's an original

juxtaposition of modalities which neatly reminds us of the aesthetic pleasure

that is inherent in mundane work day objects and processes.

From my own office days I can readily recall the strange but positive delights that could

come from thumbing through the great blackbound volumes, which recorded the number of

tins of tuna or dried fruit at present in stock, or in a later job the number of beams of

Rayon that were available for the

mills of Lancashire. Then came the office revolution that ushered in a

wholly new pleasure, the delight, yes delight of the filing cabinet.

No more ungainly big books and stacks of unsorted paperwork on one's desks.

Here was a way of managing information that was super fast and eminently accessible.

But what exactly did the arrival of the filing cabinet in every office say about the

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