Don't we know it, David.
Especially all those who sneak out before buying a copy.
Doug
On 18-Apr-09, at 1:27 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> "Pliny, writing in the early second century A.D., complained that in
> Rome
> “there was scarcely a day in April when someone wasn’t giving a
> reading,”
> and that the poor authors had to put up with small audiences, most
> of whom
> slipped out before the end anyway."
> which is a clip from an essay by Mary Beard, who has taken a break
> from her
> recent fixation on death, in the latest New York Times Book Review
Douglas Barbour
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