Classic Books Re-packaged

[Joel Katz]

this is disgusting.  you should never have been allowed to read.  now look 
at you.



>From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
>To: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>CC: oilymicro at gmail.com, wmacfarl at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Classic Books Re-packaged
>Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:32:35 -0400
>
>OK, now a politically incorrect response to all of this. I'm sure that you
>will all hate me.
>
>When I was a young child in a working class home with both parents working
>full time jobs, hard-cover editions of the classics were expensive. We ate
>macaroni and cheese and I'm allergic to dairy products for
>chrissfuckingsake.I had a library card and I was (with my sisters) not just
>encouraged but required to go to the library and withdraw at least one book
>per week. Still, it was important to have books actually in the home that 
>we
>owned. So my parents mail-ordered the Readers Digest Condensed Classics.
>Yes, they were inferior. I got to read works to which I would not have been
>exposed otherwise. I'm sure that they were in my public library, but I wuld
>not have taken it upon myself to look for them if I were unaware of their
>existence.
>
>So, there is a place for this sort of thing.
>
>You may trash and flame me now.
>
>Peace,
>Joe

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