"Penguin paperbacks, along with those old Gollancz yellow hardcovers, are what I grew up thinking was The Good Stuff"
Me too! Except that I also included the Dover paperbacks, which I esteemed as much for their physical properties as for their contents. Those sewn signatures and that beautiful paper made a deep impression on me! And I still possess 40 year old Dovers that are perfectly usable, whereas the Penguins, printed on what is nearly newsprint, are crumbling to pieces.
Anyway, all of your points are well taken, and I should have thought obvious. And yet ... when I point out that if you want someone to *pay* you USD (say, to buy your product), they have to *have* USD, and in order to have USD, they ultimately have to *sell* something to America, because only America has the power to create USD, and that the effect of tariffs is to reduce sales to America ... the chain of reasoning is apparently too recondite to follow.
Holland yellow covers. They had a monopoly on hardback SF back in the day. And that's how I erroneously picked up in the library a book by Christmas Humphreys on Zen. Same jacket. I wonder if the same thing happened to Van Morrison?
It usually takes just a wee little bit longer to get to the "debate me you coward!" stage. Please go away. Future comments by you will be deleted on sight.
The issue it seems to me is not that you're wrong but how to get voters to act on these complicated shenanigans
"Penguin paperbacks, along with those old Gollancz yellow hardcovers, are what I grew up thinking was The Good Stuff"
Me too! Except that I also included the Dover paperbacks, which I esteemed as much for their physical properties as for their contents. Those sewn signatures and that beautiful paper made a deep impression on me! And I still possess 40 year old Dovers that are perfectly usable, whereas the Penguins, printed on what is nearly newsprint, are crumbling to pieces.
Anyway, all of your points are well taken, and I should have thought obvious. And yet ... when I point out that if you want someone to *pay* you USD (say, to buy your product), they have to *have* USD, and in order to have USD, they ultimately have to *sell* something to America, because only America has the power to create USD, and that the effect of tariffs is to reduce sales to America ... the chain of reasoning is apparently too recondite to follow.
Holland yellow covers. They had a monopoly on hardback SF back in the day. And that's how I erroneously picked up in the library a book by Christmas Humphreys on Zen. Same jacket. I wonder if the same thing happened to Van Morrison?
Thank you autocorrect. Gollancz.
Penguin! The mark of quality!
It usually takes just a wee little bit longer to get to the "debate me you coward!" stage. Please go away. Future comments by you will be deleted on sight.