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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: The Philosopher who wrote (54264)8/8/2002 5:01:07 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I don't
but I have a framed picture that says this:

"Books seem to me pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...wiht something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind....
"
Above the quote is a little Edgar Gorey print of a man with a book clasped to his chest, smiling, and over the edge of the cliff, along which he is walking, two feet are visible....
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