Just the fax …

… Seamus Heaney's biographer races to see poet's faxes before they fade | Books | The Guardian.

“My one terror is that his favourite communication mode was the fax, and faxes fade. So I’m going to have to find out who has faxes from him, and read them quickly. At the end, [Heaney’s publisher] Faber had a fax machine that was kept just for Seamus,” said O’Toole. (Hat tip, G.E. Reutter.)