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What is it about the books you love that make you hate the people who
don’t? I was in a used bookstore the other day, buying A Muriel Spark Trio
(which includes her three late 1950s novels The Comforters,The Ballad of
Peckham Rye, and Memento Mori), and was told by the owner (a gentle,
bearded, cardiganed man in the fashion of nearly all used bookstore owners)
that he didn’t remember the last time someone had bought a Muriel
Spark book. I was immediately and totally filled with rage, and demanded
the names, addresses, and phone numbers of every one of his cretinous
customers who hadn’t had the good fucking sense and taste to buy anything
by Spark over the last twenty years. ...more
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