tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8816955256931900850.post870913335611966768..comments2024-01-04T05:04:43.034-08:00Comments on usedbuyer2.0: A Spare Hour at the Bookstoreusedbuyer 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08909335300273240931noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8816955256931900850.post-76241455027161918852010-05-10T10:38:22.783-07:002010-05-10T10:38:22.783-07:00I should have said termite colony. No single term...I should have said termite colony. No single termite could erect such a temple of words;-)Booksellers versus Bestsellershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03146868037718518596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8816955256931900850.post-70221128482203772842010-05-10T01:29:54.361-07:002010-05-10T01:29:54.361-07:00I like the comparison to the termite -- industriou...I like the comparison to the termite -- industrious little fellow --better than to Faulkner. Ah, well...usedbuyer 2.0https://www.blogger.com/profile/08909335300273240931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8816955256931900850.post-1470463714425127902010-05-09T23:46:12.809-07:002010-05-09T23:46:12.809-07:00Your assignment for today is to read the following...Your assignment for today is to read the following sentence in a single breath, then diagram it. It has a magnificent structure worthy of a South African termite, or perhaps Faulkner.<br /><br />Loved the essay, though.<br /><br />"His belief in the beneficence of God is not one I share, and like his general reticence to look beyond the walls of Edinburgh for any explanation of character, his dislike of vulgarity of any kind, and his acceptance of violence, social inequality, poverty and ignorance as both regrettable and endemic to nature, I do not doubt, that piety and all else, good and bad, including a tendency, for all his good humor, to a sometimes crippling melancholy, in other words, the very qualities that made him such an exemplary Victorian in so many ways, have all contributed to the fading away of his reputation and his readership in the more than one hundred years since he lived and wrote."Booksellers versus Bestsellershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03146868037718518596noreply@blogger.com