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Many of those who say they have a counterplan are willing to abandon working together in favour of some selfish advantage
Wikipedia reveals that a defining feature of Super Crown Bookstores in the US in the mid-1990s was that each of them carried up to 80,000 titles.
I looked it up because I was l trying to remember choosing Bruce Catton’s Reflections on the Civil War, which I inscribed at the time, “Super Crown Bookstore, Washington, August 1994”. It was one of some dozen titles purchased in the course of my four-week, six-city trip across the US — courtesy of the state department’s superlative International Visitor Programme for journalists — which remained unread on my various bookshelves of the past nearly 30 years until about a month ago...
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