On 3 October 2012 09:45, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
guess the rest? do spell it out…
Well, a court case resulted, but it wasn't the bookstore in the dock.
On 3 October 2012 09:45, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> guess the rest? do spell it out…
>
> One Christmas Eve I was leaving a Melbourne department store when I
> noticed in the doorway two men wrestling.
> I said urgently to them: Stop it guys! Security is coming this way.
> One of the wrestlers hissed back:
> I AM security!
>
> On 03/10/2012, at 5:03 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > Not a Snap in the sense of a little, perceiving thing of a poem, but a
> > related beastie, a wee anecdote. Last Sunday I was at a talk on the long,
> > slow demise of the independent, radical bookshop in Britain: in the 1970s
> > there were more than 130, today there are arguably less than 10,
> certainly
> > no more than 20. The speaker was an Aberdonian by birth, hence my opening
> > Scotticisms, and a former bookshop manager, in the double sense of having
> > formerly managed a bookshop, and of the bookshop having formerly existed,
> > it having gone the way of its many comrades-in-arms. He was talking of
> > incidents of police surveillance, banned books, strange plants, arrests,
> > and Neo-Nazi attacks, of which there were a plethora, and remembered how
> > once in a Bradford shop a would-be Fascist came in and headbutted a
> > potential customer who was browsing books.
> > The book-browser was an undercover police officer. You can guess the
> rest.
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
> > **
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
>
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
**
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
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