Wednesday, February 20, 2008

restrained by power relations


Casey writes, "After a few hours in the thrift store, my friends and I went to the counter to check out and saw this sign above a bin of what did indeed appear to be books. Never has the saying "don't judge a book by its cover" seemed so...Philosophy 101!"

13 comments:

  1. With the two colors, these seem to be double QMs. Does one color negate the other? Are they QMs or not?

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  2. Do two quotation marks make a right?

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  3. How much were they charging for the "free" "books"?

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  4. So they're booklike objects I have to pay for?

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  5. Andi: I think two quotation marks make a mistake.

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  6. Are they really captive pamphlets?

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  7. First, a set of black QMs. Then blue QMs around those. Then triple underlines under each word. Okay, I get it! Free books! Sheesh.

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  8. Sigh... is it too much to ask that people who sell books be literate? Guess so...

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  9. ^
    no, but you don't have to be a genius to give 'em away.

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  10. Ah, makes sense...as economists will tell you: 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' (or 'free' 'books' for that matter)

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  11. at least they're free. did you know that Voose TEA JaNe is going for upwards of $16 these days?? outrageous.

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  12. I think this is your best title ever.

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  13. thanks, Jeff. I said to my roommate "I just made a foucault joke on my punctuation blog. I am really quite geeky."

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