Typewriter reveals unexpected genius | Brief letters

<p>Guaranteed immortality | Living with rejection | Going like hot cakes | Poetry in lotion | The failure of IA</p><p>Bob Brody, you may not yet have achieved great heights as a novelist, but your genius as an inventor should guarantee your immortality (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/08/stay-true-to-yourself-fly-closer-sun-what-ive-learned-from-50-years-of-rejection">‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection, 8 October</a>). The illustration published with your article shows you at work on your typewriter, which appears to take in shredded paper and convert it to a sheet of A4&nbsp;as you type. Genius.<br><strong>Noel Chidwick</strong><br><em>Edinburgh</em></p><p>• I enjoyed Bob Brody’s piece on learning to live with rejection, but&nbsp;I’m not expecting this letter to&nbsp;be&nbsp;published.<br><strong>Lindsay Camp</strong><br><em>Bristol</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/08/typewriter-reveals-unexpected-genius">Continue reading...</a>