I had some interesting responses to my earlier posts here and here about Nietzsche's typewriter. Apparently the actual typewriter (a Malling-Hansen ball - the first commercially sold typewriter in the world) still exists in the Goethe and Schiller archive in Weimar. For a German book about Nietzsche's typewriter and his typescripts, see Dieter Eberwein's webpages - it even includes a section on Nietzsche's keystroke strength. I'm willing to bet his typing style was more dionysian than apollonian...
HyperNietzsche has images of a range of Nietzsche's notebooks. Amazing. I couldn't find the typescripts in amongst them, but I guess they'll be up there sooner or later.
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