Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

Technical Support

I had hoped to find a reason why. My Krups ProAroma coffee maker inexplicably bleeps a red warning light every time I attempt to make coffee (sans even a cryptic abbreviation on the LCD), I had hoped that the folks at Krups could do better than this. Not only does the manual (lost during a move) fail to answer this basic question, but, in a process worthy of the scanning horrors described in Nicholson Baker's Double Fold, it appears that a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy was scanned haphazardly by Krups personnel into a machine -- to the point where one is constantly rotating the PDF file to make sense of it. And even then the basic question of why this flashing red light continues to flash, further causing me to scream during these sleepless nights and bemoan the fact that I live in a neighborhood in which apparently nobody but me needs coffee before 7 AM, remains unanswered.