Comment by Terr_

> finger [...] dozens of pages of paper printouts

I know just the poetry to go with that story:

    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--Omar Khayyám, 11th-century, translation