Re: The bookselling racket (was: Collecting Dictionaries)

John R. Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:

> xerlome wrote:
> > No, no, now wait a minute here ! I don't need to think it over, i know
> > right now, and the answer is no ! No ! Doggone it !

> Wildwood commented:
> > *yawn* Performance art is so much more fulfilling when it's on stage.

> Actually, it's a movie. If you're American, I'm surprised you didn't
> recognise it (George Bailey [James Stewart] refusing to sell out to
> Potter in It's a Wonderful Life, 1946).

Thanks ! I have never quite learned or accepted the apparent reality
in these internet discussions that humor (at least when i attempt it)
is very often missed or mistaken.

ER Lyon

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