From the dozens of mistyped documents, which the artist scanned at the archive, he selected all the mispelled words (image on the left) and all the pencil crossings and scratches that Nietzsche made over these failed writings (image on the right).
Due to his messy handwriting and sight complications, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche acquired a typewriter.
It was a Malling Hansen “Writing Ball”.
None of these models have survived.
Johanne, one of Rasmus’ daughters, even became a psychic medium
Nietzsche expected the typewriter to transform his way of thinking,
“It will enable me to write books that are the opposite of those I have written,” he predicted.
However, the typewriter was damaged during shipping which led it to produce typing errors.
The philosopher would try over and over to find a way to use it regardless
In his room, undisturbed, Nietzsche spent hours teaching his fingers “to dance with the Malling-Hansen”.
He wrote of dancing himself “as if something supernatural” echoed out of him.
Long after his death, a tiny piece of paper was torn from one of Nietzsche’s typed manuscripts.
Consequently a psychic medium used it to contact him and ask one question: What was your dance like?
Nietzsche dancing through the body of a psychic medium.
