After retiring, Ratnayake returned to Lake House, to write for The Daily News briefly.
Since he was a writer and journalist belonging to the old world order, he didn't fancy writing on computers, and managed to get himself the only typewriter left at the Lake House as he simply says "To hell with the modernity, the scuttling mouse.
All this sophisticated hi-fi gadgetry nauseates me and threatens to kill my journalistic creativity.
Give me the typewriter any day – I am like an orphan child re-united with his mother.
To be true I detest the computer.
Only the typewriter can instil in me the desire to write.
Its touch the loving caress, inspires me.
Maybe I am naive and old-fashioned but I am me and I am in love with the old mistress."
After retiring, Ratnayake returned to Lake House, to write for The Daily News briefly. Since he was a writer and journalist belonging to the old world order, he didn't fancy writing on computers, and managed to get himself the only typewriter left at the Lake House as he simply says "To hell with the modernity, the scuttling mouse. All this sophisticated hi-fi gadgetry nauseates me and threatens to kill my journalistic creativity. Give me the typewriter any day – I am like an orphan child re-united with his mother. To be true I detest the computer. Only the typewriter can instil in me the desire to write. Its touch the loving caress, inspires me. Maybe I am naive and old-fashioned but I am me and I am in love with the old mistress."
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