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- From: ds@tejas.watson.ibm.com (Dinkar Sitaram)
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.232955.15284@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 23:29:55 GMT
- Reply-To: ds@tejas.watson.ibm.com (Dinkar Sitaram)
- References: <tg9dhtk@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1gdaaqINN1kg@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec14.144232.21162@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1gikq6INNra5@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1gikq6INNra5@agate.berkeley.edu>, curtis@cs.berkeley.edu
- (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
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- |> When you spend X dollars on libraries for the poor, instead of giving
- |> the poor X dollars, what you are saying is:
- |>
- Sorry to waste bandwidth, but are libraries used only by the poor? I
- don't consider myself poor, but I go to the library all the time.
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- By the way, both private and public libraries exist in India, with
- the private libraries concentrating on magazines and best-selling
- literature, and public libraries concentrating on other material.
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- Dinkar
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