The Singing Canary, our winged correspondent, notes this amusing story out of Kansas City, Missouri: -
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Tom Wayne, owner of Prospero's Books, just wanted to downsize his collection. He offered to donate his unwanted books to libraries and thrift shops.
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No takers.
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So on Sunday (May 27, 2007), Wayne lit the first of planned monthly bonfires, to continue until he has burned 20,000 unwanted books.
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"This is the funeral pyre for thought in American today," Wayne told spectators as he lit the fire.
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My goodness. The Professor wishes she owned a warehouse; she would offer to take those meddlesome books off his hands and open her own bookstore.
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Greenies et al, is reading really no longer fundamental? Has the YouTube monster finally consumed the academy?
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e-mail us your thoughts.
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The Morose Professor
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