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The overdue library books I really wish I had taken time to read before today

, , , , and finally Amer­i­can Mag­a­zine Jour­nal­ists, 1741–1850 (Dic­tio­nary of Lit­er­ary Biog­ra­phy) Vol­ume 73, which pisses me off because it’s so god­damned expen­sive. Gale Research (now dis­play­ing your name in the sky­line near my house), you are increas­ingly becom­ing an obstacle.

[He said, wav­ing a fist at the sky, not real­iz­ing that Gale Research might well be a dif­fer­ent ani­mal from the Thom­son Reuters sign he was indi­cat­ing. And also fail­ing to con­nect in any way his dis­ap­point­ment in find­ing how expen­sive the Dic­tio­nary of Lit­er­ary Biog­ra­phy actu­ally is to his fail­ure in read­ing the one he had been host­ing in his own home for sev­eral weeks.]

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