tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post1764409992201875419..comments2024-03-28T11:28:31.364-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Try to Burn a Piece of Granite'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-5515537589059673522011-08-15T09:39:25.528-05:002011-08-15T09:39:25.528-05:00You neglect to mention, as the linked story does, ...You neglect to mention, as the linked story does, that one bookstore was in fact vandalized. To quote the linked Economist story:<br />"The sorry exception to the prevailing book amnesty is Gay’s The Word in Bloomsbury, London’s first exclusively lesbian and gay bookshop. Staff arrived on the morning of August 8th to find the shop window had been smashed with a rock and the books on display pelted with eggs. No other shops on the street were targeted and no books were taken."<br /><br />The fact that no books were taken is perhaps consistent with a point made in your own comment about the perceived value and utility of books. Bu this bookstore, and its contents, apparently represented something the vandals chose to target, even as they spared they other shops on the block.Larry Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11230625387367911086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-11555351658719479402011-08-15T09:29:02.343-05:002011-08-15T09:29:02.343-05:00When Ezra Pound challenged him to a duel, Squire s...When Ezra Pound challenged him to a duel, Squire suggested that they settle the matter by hurling unsold copies of their books at one another.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com