Requiem for a Manual Typewriter - Jonas Mekas dance African and American odysseys

African and American odysseys

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Requiem for a Manual Typewriter - Jonas Mekas dance African and American odysseysOn March 25, 1997, Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet and artist Jonas Mekas found a dusty roll of computer paper under his desk. He stretched the paper into his beloved Olympia De Luxe, on which he had typed all kinds of texts for so many years: diaries, poems, Movie Journal columns, interviews, manifestos and letters to friends. Compelled to fill this forgotten roll, Mekas began to write a form of text quite foreign to him: a novel. Requiem for a