6.0102 Rs: Used Books; Forks (4/57)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 25 Jun 1992 16:35:17 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0102. Thursday, 25 Jun 1992.
(1) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 19:07:37 CST (9 lines)
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: used book dealers
(2) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 08:44 EST (14 lines)
From: <KSTETSON@FAIR1>
Subject: Used Books
(3) Date: 23 JUN 92 18:01:10 CDT (15 lines)
From: NOEL POLK <POLK@USMCP6.BITNET>
Subject: Enuff on forks already!
(4) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 10:50:51 BST (19 lines)
From: FRI001@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 19:07:37 CST
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: used book dealers
I assume that Bowker still publishes the annual American Book Trade Direc-
tory, which lists most of the used book dealers and search services. Most
public libraries have a copy. I used to go to the Library Book Sale of
our public library just to pick up that and The World of Learning.
Jim Marchand
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 08:44 EST
From: <KSTETSON@FAIR1>
Subject: Used Books
I would recommend: Robinson, Ruth E. and Farudi, Daryush A. _Buy Books
Where - Sell Books Where, 1992-1993: A Directory of Out of Print
Booksellers & Collectors & Their Author-Subject Specialties_. 8th rev
edition, 1992, $29.95 paper, ISBN09603556-9-3, Ruth E. Robinson Books.
Lists more than 2,500 OP, rare, and used book specialists in the U.S.
and Canada.
Keith Stetson
Fairfield University Library
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Date: 23 JUN 92 18:01:10 CDT
From: NOEL POLK <POLK@USMCP6.BITNET>
Subject: Enuff on forks already!
Here's the absolute and definitive answer to the problem of knowing forks,
garnered by some careful hardcore research via Ma Bell with a phone call
this very p.m. not hardly 5 minutes ago: Professor Donaldson his own self
states confidently, and reliably, that "He knew the forks" MEANS he knew
his table settings!
Cheers.
Noel Polk
U of So. MS
NOEL POLK <POLK@USMCP6.BITNET>
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 10:50:51 BST
From: FRI001@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK
From: Sean O'Cathasaigh, FRI001@UK.AC.SOTON.IBM or SOC@UK.AC.SOTON.MAIL
Department of French, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH
The discussion of the man who knew the forks is in the best traditions
of Humanist. I am persuaded by the suggestion that the whole debate is
based on a misprint, and that "forks" should read "forms". But the
struggle to read meaning into the phrase as reported is vastly
entertaining.
Judy Coren wondered whether the semiotics of table manners in England
remain the same. Not quite. When the Mallard Society (the shadowy but
celebrated group of Southampton Humanists and ex-humanists) meets, we
have no problems with forks. The first four courses require only two
forks; we then adjourn to another room for dessert, which requires
only one further fork. Of course on occasion some of our foreign
guests can't work out which implements to use when opening a banana
or peeling a grape, but what can you expect?