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- From: pmoloney@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney)
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.202159.24629@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Somewhere in the Twentieth Century
- References: <1992Dec31.050130.24366@sophia.smith.edu> <1992Dec31.175313.25919@athena.mit.edu> <1992Dec31.183207.25805@crd.ge.com> <1992Dec31.223105.7326@netcom.com> <1i1sh9INN3ru@FRIDGE.AI.CS.YALE.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:21:59 GMT
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- engelson-sean@cs.yale.edu (Sean Philip Engelson) writes:
-
- >A related phenomenon is the reverse of the above---does anyone else,
- >when entering someone elses house, automatically form a somewhat
- >negative opinion of them if there *aren't* reasonable quantities of
- >books in evidence?
-
- There was once a girl I know whose place I went to after a party.
- We'd been friends for a while, and I wondered would, or could,
- our relationship go any further. One look at her bedroom, which contained
- no books apart from one of the tackiest holiday romances I'd ever
- seen (it had a photo instead of artwork on the cover), disassuaded
- me of this notion.
-
- P.
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