Re: Ah! Sweet recovery!

David Cameron Staples <staples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:15:35 -0700, Patrick R. Wade (prwade@xxxxxxx
> (Patrick R. Wade)) in hoc locus scripsit:
>
> > But do you have the companion volume "Where's My Cow?"?
>
> You've gotta love the 'marketing' department which decides that a book is
> a children's book, and therefore belongs in the children's section. Not,
> as one might suspect, with the book to which it is the intended companion.
> And not even with any indication in that place that it exists. If you
> didn't already know, and ask as to its location, then blissful ignorance
> will remain yours.
>

A local Barnes & Noble chain store managed to do the right thing and
put it on the end-cap near where "Thud!" was shelved. A stroke of
adequacy, or what?

--
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention
from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
.

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