Re: Borders up for sale?

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> On Mar 20, 3:10 pm, Charlton Wilbur <cwil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >>>>> "GUCS" == Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <tausti...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>     GUCS> Andrew Plotkin <erkyr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>     >> (Pandemonium remains my first stop. Not because it's an
>>     >> independent, but because it's cool and carries neat stuff.)
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>>     GUCS> Ah, but are those really different?
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>> Yes.  I've been in independent bookstores that harangued me about how
>> evil Bush was from the end of every bookshelf, and that carried only
>> literary fiction and even had a clerk that informed me of this when I
>> (foolishly) asked if the store had a mystery or sf section.
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> I think you two are parsing that sentence differently. Where a
> bookstore is (1) independent (2) cool and (3) a carrier of neat
> stuff,  I think the original question was whether (2) and (3) are
> really different qualities.

They could be.  A bookstore could have lots of great stuff and yet
still be too annoying to deal with.  Perhaps the staff are very surly.