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>On Mar 20, 6:54 pm, Gene Ward Smith <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> The Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley screwed me over in a different
way.
>> They had a sign up with a big explanation for why they didn't, for
social-
>> poltical reasons, carry Gor books. This, of course, obligated me to
read
>> the first Gor book, which turned out to be crap on cardboard. Why
couldn't
>> they have not carried Gor because it was crap?
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>Does that bookstore still exist? I remember from the Late 70's, early
>80's.
Yes, I was just there today. They've moved from the south side of
UC Berkeley's campus to the west side.
Incidentally, Gene makes it sound like the "No Gor" thing was a large
sign with some kind of manifesto. It wasn't. It was one page cut out
from a paperback book, taped to the side of one of the bookcases (near
the N's), with this handwritten on it:
"This is from the first, and *least* offensive, Gor book. We don't
carry Gor."
It wasn't a matter of "protecting tender minds"; if anyone came in and
asked for the Gor books, we were happy to direct them to Cody's Books.
This censor****p thus involved making people walk a whole one block.
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