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- From: vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni)
- Subject: Re: Cambridge mimes & Third World Bookstores (was Re: Git)
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:46:13 GMT
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- kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan) writes:
- >
- > Strictly speaking of used bookstores, I agree. Beyond McIntyre
- > & Moore and Starr there are much better used bookstores in the
- > outlying areas. I take this as a consequence of expensive Harvard
- > Square rents. Still, for bookstores generally the Square is great. A
- > guide to Cambridge Bookstores lists 19 in the vicinity and 32 in
- > Cambridge.
- >
-
- Yes, but if you are, say, looking for some _particular_ book, and not
- just out to view large numbers of books in general, you are pretty much
- on the wrong track in Harvard Square. If you could (theoretically, of
- course) park somewhere, and manage to make your way to all nineteen
- bookstores without being shot, stabbed, or accosted by some tofu-crazed
- street performer, you would find that, in fact, all nineteen stores have
- _exactly the same books_. (This is a Cambridge by-law, so that none
- of the stores has it's self-esteem damaged, all bookstores must stock
- exactly the same books. Another Cambridge by-law is that the great
- majority of the books in any bookstore have to be on subjects in which no
- living or dead human being (including the book's author) has ever -
- even fleetingly - shown any interest in whatsoever (e.g. _A Concise History
- of Umbrella Breeding_,)). Anyway, one trip to Borders, and one trip
- to the convenient Much-Ado used bookstore (right in Marblehead) will,
- in my experience, generally be more much productive (and all-around
- _nicer_) than any amount of shopping in Harvard Square.
-
-
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