END OF THE ROAD

Cormac McCarthy's trusty Olivetti typewriter - which looks awfully familiar - has given up the ghost.

 Lately this dependable machine has been showing irrevocable signs of age. So after his friend and colleague John Miller offered to buy him another, Mr. McCarthy agreed to auction off his Olivetti Lettera 32 and donate the proceeds to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit interdisciplinary scientific research organization with which both men are affiliated.