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- From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: Libra Verdi
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.223303.14475@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:33:03 GMT
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- adw@cci632.cci.com (Allen Williams (co-op)) writes:
- : >I managed once to go a whole month without buying books, and this fact being
- : >demonstrated, felt no need to do so again. The best I've been able to manage
- : >is only buying one book for every two that I read. The normal ratio is more
- : >like three to one.
- : >
- : >I need help.
- : >
- : You need a library card. The books are free at your public library, and
- : sometimes they have $0.25 a paperback book sales.
- :
- :
- : My mom was a librarian-
- : it runs in the blood
-
- You don't get it. I already have about a ten-year backlog of unread books.
- Going to the library at this point would, and does, only exacerbate the
- situation. Ditto for $0.25 books sales.
-
- All of my girlfriends have been librarians, though...well, perhaps I should say
- "both of them". And most of my friends that happened to be girls were, too.
-
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- ---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey)
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