"David Goldfarb" <goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <a3343bae-13de-4eba-b324-23e9185bb84a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> artyw2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>>On Mar 20, 6:54 pm, Gene Ward Smith <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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-
>>> political 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?
>>
>>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"
My words. :)
> ; 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.
I didn't intend to imply that it was censor****p in any meaningful sense.
I
was going on Gene's description and probably reading more into it than he
put into it.
Prior comment cheerfully retracted.
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