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As I said, my reading of the court's decision could be wide off the mark - more likely than not.
But on a lighter note:
Of course
The World of Ideas. And in the 17th corner from the right, should be the 71th corner if you come from the other side, no corner at all if you look at it from the top and don't get me started on 'from below', there are letters, glyphs, words even. There is Literature.
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Another place. Another day - one of those between Sunday morning and Sunday evening. And again the proverbial hits the fan at the Unseen University. Literature is frozen in time and space, literature enters the material world. There is the book.
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New guilds emerge. The writers, the publishers, the booksellers. And all guilds build big big houses in the best part of the city. The publishers have space to spare. The Guild of the Blind, also known as the Guild of Legislators, Judges and Lawyers, which is quite a mouthful, move into the basement. In this house downstairs all the neatest regulations with all the details for the new thing are looked after - after some good meals upstairs.
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Books are bought in spades. To be read or not to be read and to be used as doorstops of course.
All is well.
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Will there be to many books? Will literature swamp the real world? Some fear. But books are sold on. New owners like their used books to read or not to read and to use as doorstops of course. How many doorstops do you need? Not much more than you have doors in your house most likely.
Still - all is well.
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Another place. Another day - one ... oh shucks. And again the proverbial hits the fan at the Unseen University. A guy looking for toilet paper and an unlucky guy at that - didn't find any - comes across a new kind of imp. Completely magical, the imp is there and not there, it is one and many, completely unreal for those not believing in magic. Try to explain the imp to your great-great-great-parents and you will know about unreality. It/she/he/they perform/performs literature on special slates in various sizes, shapes and styles. There is the ebook.
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The guilds' houses get an expansion or two. Members of the Guild of the Blind really have to work for their dinners upstairs to put all the unreal in really nifty sets of rules and regulations. What is the most real unreal known to mankind? Must be services - at the restaurant, at the doctor, at a public office - nothing magical but unreal for sure. The magical part is making of real money from selling the unreal they think. So the ebook service - imps performing 35/11 - is born.
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Ebooks are bought for slates and in spades. Angels sitting on top of the sharp end of a pin - that's plenty. Not much in it when compared to at all the imps you can get on your slate. Human nature to have more literature in your pocket than you can read in your lifetime. And ebooks are bought in spades. To be read or not to be read.
Still - seems all is well.
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Want to sell my ebook. First there is only one small voice, then there is a chorus of voices. Want to sell my ebook. Want to buy a new ebook to read or not to read and really need a new doorstop of course. At the guilds' houses there are great meetings of minds. And at last the Guild of the Blind sees it all and whatever: Ebooks can't be used as doorstops of course.
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Must go and get my imp some medication.
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