{"id":7446,"date":"2012-08-22T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/when-nietzsche-started-going-blind-he-needed-some\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T21:24:16","slug":"when-nietzsche-started-going-blind-he-needed-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=7446","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7446 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=7447'><img width=\"104\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m92ngtuphD1rpiyaso1_400.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=7448'><img width=\"101\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m92ngtuphD1rpiyaso3_400.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=7449'><img width=\"80\" height=\"96\" src=\"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m92ngtuphD1rpiyaso2_500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>When Nietzsche started going blind, he needed some help. Luckily, the first commercial typewriter had just been developed in Denmark: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hansen_Writing_Ball\">the\u00a0Hansen Writing Ball<\/a> (1870). Nietzsche once said that our writing tools are also working on our thoughts. So naturally, he wrote some leet poetry:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Writing Ball is a thing just like me: of iron<br \/><\/span><span>And yet easy to twist, especially on journeys.<br \/><\/span><span>Patience and tact one must richly possess<br \/><\/span><span>And fine little fingers to use us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you really want to get down n&#8217; dirty with this, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malling-hansen.org\/friedrich-nietzsche-and-his-typewriter-a-malling-hansen-writing-ball.html\" target=\"_blank\">check out the book about the restoration of Nietzsche&#8217;s text ballz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nietzsche started going blind, he needed some help. Luckily, the first commercial typewriter had just been developed in Denmark: the\u00a0Hansen Writing Ball (1870). Nietzsche once said that our writing tools are also working on our thoughts. So naturally, he wrote some leet poetry: The Writing Ball is a thing just like me: of ironAnd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1404,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7450,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions\/7450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}