[IYAS9YAS]

Another art bites the dust, but hey, that's progress.

I'm sorry, I thought the art was in the story itself, not the medium. You could bind the latest version of the Healthcare bill or Cap and Trade in leather with - forgive me, I'm not a bibliophile, so I don't know the proper terms - fancy paper and gilded edges, and they would still not be art. I'm just as happy reading the classics in paperback as I am with them in leather bindings.

Paper from wood pulp is only the most current version of the medium on which the printed word is produced. Would you prefer we revert to hemp or animal skins?

[Pietro]

When I was a young man I mixed mortar and carried bricks and built scaffolding for a manic German named Norman who would proffer:

Mikey, Mikey, I buy you books and you tear out the pages........