Sit up and address a machine

Sit up and address a machine

Writers and their relationships to their writing machines. Julian Barnes:

I think you need the technology that suits the way your brain works. Sometimes you need your thoughts to go down your arm in what feels like a direct feed via pencil or felt-tip to paper, sometimes you require a more formal “sit up and address a machine”.

One would have to get creative about making a clackity noise with a pencil or, harder still, something felt-tip, but I’m certain an assimilation is possible.