He just couldn’t work with it. Maybe, as his friends joked, he was a stick-in-the-mud conservative, reluctant to change. But he knew what worked and this simply didn’t. Paul Auster had his favourite typewriter. He bought up as many ribbons as he could find when they stopped making the model. Cartier-Bresson had his particular Leica and probably later his favourite pencil. He had his favourite tool too. The one that worked for him. But now he needed a replacement. Things fail but you should be able to replace them, not have to upgrade them. He didn’t want a “better” Agent.