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(when computers were becoming the de rigeur way to high academic productivity in the 1980s and were considerably more expensive than they are now, he and I, both techno-sceptics, submitted a joint request to the university administration for an equipment grant amounting to a couple of pounds [which we didn't get] to enable us to buy a year's supply of pencils, rubbers, Tippex and typewriter ribbons so that we could continue publishing)
R. Sheppard, "Dexter - sinister: some observations on decrypting the mors code in the work of W.G. Sebald", Journal of European Studies, 2005, 35:4, p.441
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