If this were a stephen king book, it would be about how glad he was that all the editors and publishers were dead. She is just though the typewriter is the mechanism by which she's recording her thoughts. Another one is when she's thinking about another nearby house that used to have ap er on the wal i think this quote was in the new york times review. One is still prone to think of a house as a house, however, even if there is not remarkably much left of it.