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People Unclear on the Concept

posted by Zed on March 15 2004 12:45

Distinction between library and bookstore division :

A man is at the newsstand, thumbing through assorted fine periodicals. I ask him if he’s finding everything okay. He asks me if I know of anyplace that has the magazines he’s holding for sale. I told him that all of the magazines in front of him, as far as the eye can see, were for sale. He commented that he’d never been in a library that sold things before. He was genuinely shocked when I told him we were a temple of commerce.

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