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To: blue-duncan; HarleyD
If you have books on your shelf and you sit close to them do you have to read them or can you just say during a conversation "I have that book" and it holds as much weight as someone who has read it?

If it is a rare first edition, then it carries much more weight if nobody has ever opened it, much less read it.

1,345 posted on 12/13/2006 6:24:02 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: P-Marlowe; HarleyD

"If it is a rare first edition, then it carries much more weight if nobody has ever opened it, much less read it."

Now we're getting somewhere. Like "all" and "brother" could "rare" have many meanings one of which being that even though the book was published recently you bought one of only the few that were sold before they figured out it was a dog or the author was caught in a compromising situation or so far out no one would read it except someone who had no feet in reality?


1,351 posted on 12/13/2006 6:43:53 PM PST by blue-duncan
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