Madonna tops Balzac in book sales . . . E-Bay and E-books -- Amazon and ABE -- become the alpha and the omega in the book trade . . . No urban philosopher like Walter Benjamin can offer insight into $1 books costing $17 upon delivery while $17 titles go for $4 in local used bookstores. What was priceless to our mind is now sold dirt cheap . . . the ephemera reaches skyward. . . We're in an oxymoron rabbit hole caving in upon the reading room !
"The laws of religion bind us like silk threads; the laws of government are as heavy as a golden yoke; but the laws of national tradition are as inflexible as an iron pillar."
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