Re: Sharing Knife: Passage

Here, Jesper Lauridsen <rorschak@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-04-27, Konrad Gaertner <kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Jesper Lauridsen wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 2008-04-27, Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> > Here, Mark_Reichert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> >> >> Anybody else purchased and read it yet?
> >> >
> >> > No, I'm waiting for paperback.
> >> >
> >> > Although I walked past a (trade-paper-sized) ARC for sale in a
> >> > slightly seamy used bookstore. I think it was marked as $9. I told
my
> >> > soul that this was my karmic reward for never having been tempted
by
> >> > tobaccy or hard likker, and I walked on by.
> >> 
> >> Is there a translation available for the above paragraph?
> >
> > ARC = Advance Reading Copy
> 
> Thank you. With that acronym google is not a friend.

Sorry about that.

> > These are sent out to reviewers a few months before publication.  
> > They usually look just like trade paperbacks (though I've seen a 
> > couple massmarket sized ARCs, and I think once a hardcover ARC),
> > but don't have barcodes and usually say "Not For Sale" on the front 
> > cover (sometimes also "Uncorrected Page Proofs: Do Not Quote").
> > And Andrew was tempted to buy it in the same way some people are 
> > tempted by legal addictive drugs.
> 
> I read the "karmic reward" as the precense of the copy, not as the
> temptation, which helps explain my confusion.

And another tessera falls into the glittering mosaic that is my daily
life.

Next up: watching paint dry. IN COLOR!

--Z

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