Re: README: Major list change approaching
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:28:22 -0500
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 11:34:10AM -0500, AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> << * The monthly cost is negligible -- about $5. >>
>
> Ok, how about everyone send Tim a quarter?
>
> Mailing address? We can send money orders (which we pay up to a dollar for)
Nah -- how about if each person who wants to be supportive goes out and
buys one of his/her favorite books in hardcover (not paperback, which
libraries generally do not like to accept because of the cost of
maintenance), and donates it to a local library? I think a nice hardcover
of Franny & Zooey or Nine Stories might do well; the big chain bookstores
(Barnes & Noble, Borders) inexplicably stock at least one Salinger hardcover
in the fiction section. F&Z is especially lovely because Salinger
himself wrote the flap copy in lieu of a promised foreword.
(I speak of the library thing because I spent quite a long time working
in libraries, and I know how they feel about donations, and Salinger
hardcovers are books that wear out because they are so enormously
circulated.)
I know you guys are only teasing, but genuinely, this group (though I
fluctuate in how I interact) means a lot to me, and the small amount of
labor is a labor of love for one of the most writers dearest to me.
Sorry to interrupt, now carry on.... 8-)
--tim