The Best of Joe Haldeman by Joe Haldeman

Author:Joe Haldeman [Haldeman, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1596065265
Publisher: Subterranean
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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10. banal story

Dear Lena & Castle,

Typing this on the new/old machine to give you an idea about what has to be modified to mimic EH’s:

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ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ2345 67890,. / “#$#_£’ () *?

Other mechanical things to think about—

1. Paper—One thing that made people suspicious about the Hitler forgery is that experts know that old paper smells old. And of course there was that fatal chemical-composition error that clinched it.

As we discussed, my first thought was that one of us would have to go to Paris and nose around in old attics and so forth, trying to find either a stack of 75-year-old paper or an old blank book we could cut pages out of. But in the JFK Library collection I found out that EH actually did bring some American-made paper along with him. A lot of the rough draft of in our time—written in Paris a year or two after our “discovery”—was typed on the back of 6 x 7” stationery from his parents’ vacation place in Windemere, Xerox enclosed. It should be pretty easy to duplicate on a hand press, and of course it will be a lot easier to find 75-year-old American paper. One complication, unfortunately, is that I haven’t really seen the paper; only a Xerox of the pages. Have to come up with some pretext to either visit the vault or have a page brought up, so I can check the color of the ink, memorize the weight and deckle of the paper, check to see how the edges are cut …

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