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@aster Short answer: Yes, yes, she did. Octavia used to call her typewriter* her "time machine". See here: www.washingtoninformer.com/smithsonians-anacostia-community-museum-octavia-e-butlers-typewriter-as-time-machine/

Technical trivia aside, indeed, this book is so prescient it's scary. As in, really scary. That she could imagine a utopian community springing out of this utter hell still baffles me.

  • It was an Olivetti Studio 46, a fine manual typewriter. Octavia didn't buy a computer until the very last years of her life.