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Backward Is Just Not A Natural Direction For Americans To Look - Historical Ignorance Remains A National Characteristic.

Maybe You Can Make Art Out Of Unredeemed Pain, But Only If You're A Genius -- Dostoyevsky Perhaps.

Most Young Dealers Of The Silicon Chip Era Regard A Reference Library As Merely A Waste Of Space. Old Timers On The West Coast Seem To Retain A Fondness For Reference Books That Goes Beyond The Practical. Everything There Is To Know About A Given Volume May Be Only A Click Away, But There Are Still A Few Of Us Who'd Rather Have The Book Than The Click. A Bookman's Love Of Books Is A Love Of Books, Not Merely Of The Information In Them.

I Once Owned A Collection Of 77 Novels That Won The Pulitzer. The Only Good Novel Of The Bunch Was The Grapes Of Wrath.

But The English Are Different, And They Don't Know How To Be Other Than Different.