I’ll set type by hand

“‘Seems to me I’d learn how to run one of the machines.’
    ‘I won’t! Never!’ Grant exclaimed so hotly that his
father almost looked upon him with favor. He liked a man with
principles, even if they were the wrong kind. ‘I’ll set type by hand,
like it was meant to be set, or not at all!’
    ‘Well, set it by hand, then,’ said Link. ‘There’s lots of papers that don’t have this Lin-o-type yet.’”

—Jim Thompson, Heed the Thunder, 1946.

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