In reading your recent posts, it kind of concerns me that you go to such lengths to, well, point out the obvious again and again. Are there so many clueless people in the world?
Given that, when I was much younger, I believed that each and every book I handled had been put together by hand, I assume that there will always be people at varying levels of cluefulness.
Certainly I didn't know as much when I was starting out in the bookstore as I do now -- and I didn't know what a Vanity press -was- until I started working at Bakka, where a Vantage Press title would occasionally show up in the mail. Someone else (possibly andpuff explained it to me.
I tend to assume certain things, but have stubbed my conversational toes on the assumption. Because of this, I'm perfectly happy to go on at length until people tell me I'm boring them to tears with stuff they already know.
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Date: 2004-08-06 02:12 pm (UTC)Given that, when I was much younger, I believed that each and every book I handled had been put together by hand, I assume that there will always be people at varying levels of cluefulness.
Certainly I didn't know as much when I was starting out in the bookstore as I do now -- and I didn't know what a Vanity press -was- until I started working at Bakka, where a Vantage Press title would occasionally show up in the mail. Someone else (possibly
I tend to assume certain things, but have stubbed my conversational toes on the assumption. Because of this, I'm perfectly happy to go on at length until people tell me I'm boring them to tears with stuff they already know.
Is that what you're saying, hmmmm? <eg>.