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...energy, the earth, life on earth, human life, human society, art, technology, religion, the history of mankind, the branches of knowledge. Within the ten segments there are 42 divisions, 189 sections and 15,000 separate subjects-each of which is accompanied by references to the 19-volume Macropaedia, a browser's paradise of 4,207 major articles, biographies and geographical descriptions in the traditional alphabetical order. Thus, if a reader wants a detailed description of icebergs, for example, he looks in the Propaedia under Part Two-The Earth; then under Division II-The Earth's envelope: its atmosphere...
Brautigan is at his best when he lets fancy take over completely. In "The Literary Life In California 1964" he describes a bookstore browser skeptically looking through one of his own books. After a few minutes of nervous indecision the man takes out a penny and tosses it. After looking at the coin the man puts back the book of poetry and walks out of the store looking very relaxed. "I walked over and found his reluctance lying there on the floor," Brautigan writes. "I put it in my pocket. I took it home with me and shaped it into...
SAVAGE, THE MAN OF BRONZE! Startled, the browser glanced left and right; nobody was looking. Then with a furtive movement he snatched The Man of Bronze off its shelf and, slipping it deftly under a copy of Hazlitt's essays, strolled thoughtfully toward the cashier. Doc Savage? If you are over 40, you don't have to ask. Doc was the Hercules of the '30s, the natural father of both Superman and James Bond. Once a month, back before the war, every red-blooded American boy who could lay his hands on 10? plunked it down...
...nation's great secondhand bookstores, was a print fancier's Golconda. In a pre-paperback age, the books themselves, passing through Lowdermilk's from one owner to another, acquired histories and characters of their own. Roaming among the shop's six miles of shelves, the browser might have come upon a 1702 edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, a signed first edition of John Brown's Body or a mint copy of Agricola's De Re Metallica signed by the translators, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. In the musty chaos...
...Shintron Company has placed boxes for the graffiti at the Business School Coop, Nini's, Felix's, Browser's Corner, and the Paperback Booksmith. Twenty-five blank stickers are available at these depots for $1,98, but contest candidates do not have to use them...