9. The used book trade will always exist but will now be more like antique dealers: aimed at rich clientele. Readers will be elsewhere.
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10. Temple himself does belong to something important: the cohort of Canadian book dealers who first mapped our literary past.
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11. The surge of Canadian literature in the 1960s made people interested in our literary history, which dealers like Temple uncovered.
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12. So Temple & Co. did something important, but there's little reason to regret passing of specific mode of book dealing.
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@HeerJeet what mechanism preserved all those Gasoline Alley strips? the antiquarian impulse, obsessed with aura of relics, possession1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet ages-old scholarly methodology, pre-capitalist, pb cottage industry of knowledge sharing, augments academia3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@BlackCatVinyl My tweets were about how book trade is subset of larger reading culture, which is changing.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet but agree: don't shoot the messenger (or diss your clientele)3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@BlackCatVinyl In his memoirs, David Mason (Temple's onetime mentor & now enemy) notes male book dealers much grumpier than female ones.
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