At 09:37 AM 9/3/01 +0100, Charlie wrote:
>> >> IIRC Ayn Rand never got published in the UK.
>> Then what mad universe did this daggy old 1961 Panther bodicebuster edition
>> of THE FOUNTAINHEAD come from?
>That edition was published
>before I was born. I've never seen a UK edition; I'm 37.
1) The UK didn't exist before you were born?
2) They don't have secondhand book stores in the UK?
3) UK bookstores never import US editions? (Like this here Signet/NAL ATLAS
SHRUGGED?)
4) Then what's all this old stuff, eh? eh?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/202-8407461-0138263
(Well, probably not UK editions, it's true. Smuggled in by the
International Objectivist Conspiracy.)
Damien Broderick
[still sniggering happily over Charlie's wonderful tale of the Artful
Conscript Programmer]
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