Bury our hearts in the attic

[sovay]

Me: I'll just print out these poems in preparation for tomorrow night's weird fiction reading.

Printer: *prints all pages mirror-reversed except for the one whose title is in Yiddish*

Me: . . . so we have sheydim in the printer?

My mother: Why not?

(I showed her what had happened by holding the pages up in a mirror. She believes I should do my reading tomorrow from the reversed pages, using a mirror. I am, I think not unreasonably, a little concerned about what I might get if I do.)

Comments

[shewhomust]

*looks up sheydim*

It would explain quite a bit about the behaviour of printers...

[moon_custafer]

I’ve recently noticed a particular pdf at my workplace, if set up to print landscape, prints portrait, and vice versa.

[dewline]

It just might, at that.

[moon_custafer]

Suddenly recalling a bit near the end of A Canticle for Leibowitz where one of the monks comments that his office printer must actually possess a soul and free will, as it has clearly chosen evil.

[sovay]

It would explain quite a bit about the behaviour of printers...

This would be the perfect opportunity for the phrase "printer's devil" if The Twilight Zone hadn't gotten there first.