I thought do too Stephen, but then I looked at the top of the story, &
the name was Paul Constant, so I have to at least wonder....
Doug
On 9-Mar-08, at 10:04 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> The bookstore person (writer of the article) is a woman, I believe.
> Tho I totally admire her fight to protect the book (and run down the
> thieves), I did get the impression that all the thieves were guys,
> and there was an undercurrent of hostility toward the potential for
> evil lurking in all us (men) as such, thieves or not, including the
> security guard (caught masturbating in the children's book section)
> in the corporate chain for which she worked. It's curious that more
> guys (no doubt) go after the books and not women. Women, some who I
> have known, go after clothes and cosmetics. As a father of a
> daughter, the price of women's clothes in comparison to those for
> men, is in itself provocation for theft - of which I still do not
> approve.
>
> My gut always recoils at separatist righteousness of any sort,
> particularly my own!
>
> Stephen
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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>
>
> Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Well, yeah, but in
> my role as a member of a small press, I love the
> Independents (hate the big boxes & never shop there), so I feel for
> this guy (& did not know about this particular situation; maybe in our
> cold climate it doesnt happen as much).
>
> Doug
> On 9-Mar-08, at 9:25 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>
>> http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=520472
>>
>> "Some dangerous poem is always stalking you."
>> --Heberto Padilla
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
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>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> John Newlove
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