Stephen frankly I don't understand your message
yes I know charity shops exist, what made you want to suggest that I don't
having a pittance to survive on, I gladly know them well
you spoke however -reprovingly- of the charity shop as a prospect for a
book of poems -- I said that this needn't be a bad thing: ie, I don't give
a damn if my book ends up selling for 10p in a charity shop. Why should
I? So much the better -- someone can get one for 10p.
re Bourdieu -- please take another look at The Field of Cultural
Production, eg the empirical sales data regarding the commercial fate of
En Attendant Godot. Perhaps you've some reason for thinking this not
empirical.
I understand your suspicion of name dropping but do feel that you inflate
this proclivity almost to a caricature. If you propose an embargo on any
reference to published thought (or to those parts of it which happen to
have become quite popular recently, for various reasons), perhaps you
could say so outright.
k
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