Amazon.com?

[Morgan N. Sandquist]

>Morgan Sandquist's lament:
>
>>  Much as I hate to
>>admit it, it's easier (and probably cheaper in the end) to just go to the
>>local Barnes & Noble and buy your books the old-fashioned way.
>>
>>Morgan
>>
>
>Au contraire, mon frere.  
>Strolling through North Oakland / South Berkeley last evening, I spotted 
>M&D in prominent window displays in every local bookstore I passed, no
>matter how small or specialized (even the SF stores had it!).
>
>Support your local indie!

I'd love to support my local indie, but with the advent of Barnes & Noble
there are no local indies left (at least not on the Upper West Side--in
fact, with the closure of Books & Co., there are virtually no indies above
59th Street).

BTW, the reason Amazon chose to ship my books UPS rather USPS is that I had
ordered a few and put my order over the weight limit.  Damned inconvenient.
So the third lesson I've learned is:  Read the shipping details.  I
apologize for any unwarranted, heat-of-the-moment, Christmas-is-coming-late
Amazon bashing.

Morgan

  Oh and night:  there is night, when a wind full of infinite space
gnaws at our faces.  Whom would it not remain for--that longed-after,
mildly disillusioning presence, which the solitary heart
so painfully meets.  Is it any less difficult for lovers?
But they keep on using each other to hide their own fate.