The Crying of Lot 49

[Michael Bailey]

the best take on it that I've seen is in Be Kind, Rewind...
where, I think it's Jane Curtin, explains that they can make all the
movies they want but they have to make up their own plots.
"Or we'll send you to jail for a million billion years.  - And people think
we're the bad guys!"


If somebody patents "boy meets girl" I'll be all for civil disobedience,

(and even now you can definitely make a case for "free samples build demand")

I also like Tolkien's words on the authorized edition of LOtR:
"those who approve of courtesy, at least, to living authors, will
buy this edition" (or something like that)

I admit I read the Salinger "un- and underpublished" archive online
but have made some amends by buying some Salinger...
or wait...did I actually get around to that or am I still just about to do it
sometime soon...
-- hey I finally chunked some money at W.A.S.T.E., I was still
feeling sufficiently virtuous about that till now...





-- 
"My God, I am fully in favor of a little leeway or the damnable jig is
up! " - Hapworth Glass