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Sunday 20 October 2002 |
I think that I would be a meso-libertarian if it were not for the radical abolition of taxes and education thing. Despite my grave differences with the state of education in America today, I believe that it serves, however faultily, as a means of inculcating our youth with a set of values that, no matter the problems I have with it, constitutes a common culture and very nearly approximates a culture of decency, if not virtue. Hayekians amongst you may note that Friedrich advocated...um, I forget. Education—that’s a service for which I would pay—I just wish I were paying much less.
3:19:16 PM 
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This piece looks like it was sent by e-mail, and Brian has not attributed it, so I assume I am probably going to get it forwarded to me in the next week. It looks like that kind of e-mail.
2:20:23 PM
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Whoa! Jonathan Carroll has a new novel out? How did I not hear about this? Oh, right, general apathy and hiding in my hotel room vegging out. Thanks, Jon Hansen (the plush Cthulhu guy)! White Apples...gotta remember that one next time I go to a bookstore.
2:13:04 AM
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There should be a law against allowing me to drive anywhere near a bookstore. I saw the ninetieth-anniversary issue of Poetry, seems doubly thick. Lots of poets! Kenneth Koch and John Frederick Nims, both dead, alas. Stephen Dobyns, “Aphorisms”—who does he think he is, Wallace Stevens? Rachel is not in this one, though she was in the eighty-fifth; I’m sure she’ll be in the hundredth.
Prominently displayed was Nick Bantock’s latest in the Griffin and Sabine series, which I had thought finished with book three, The Golden Mean! So of course I have to pick up the one before as well: so now I am loaded with books four and five, Gryphon and Alexandria. I haven’t read the original three for years, but apparently in this set, Griffin and Sabine are shepherding two new correspondents together. Or something like that. Ah the sensous feel of sifting through someone else’s prettily designed mail!
Some expensive computer books that I had come in for, including W Richard Stevens (alas!) on Unix programming.
1:59:36 AM
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