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- From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.223105.7326@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:31:05 GMT
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- meltsner@crd.ge.com:
- >8. Are you unable to walk through a mall without stopping at a bookstore?
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- This isn't significant. Why do you suppose I'm in the mall?
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- >22. When a stranger walks into your house or apartment, are his or her
- >first words usually a comment about your books?
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- This is frequently a source of embarrassment to me -- on their behalf.
- Most of my books are upstairs, so strangers who walk in just see three
- relatively small bookcases. So "Boy, you sure have a lot of books!"
- from them means "I don't often see a house with over a hundred books".
- How does one answer such a comment?
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- Dani Zweig
- dani@netcom.com
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- "One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide.'
- Dad would show us a photo and ask us, "Is it a murder or a suicide?"
- -- Colleen Doran
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