Re: THEORY: Browsing at Borders Public Library

At 15:33 10/13/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>> >in which some culture or group spent all its time
>> >constructing "meta-languages" to Sapir-Whorf (indirectly control)
>> >the thoughts of (other?) civilization(s) somehow dependent on them?
>
>I need to read "Languages of Pao" in its entirety
>(having read excerpts like "Moon Moth" in various collections)
>and "Babel-17 (Delaney is maybe my favorite sci-fi author
>just based on his short stories; I read lots of shorts).
>But the corner-chain-bookstore-abomination didn't have either.
>I settled for some Stanislaw Lem, irrelevantly. Next, the library.
>
That's because both books are out of print, so the only way you are going
to be able to read them is by finding them in a library or a used bookstore.

I know way too much about these sorts of things.

Sylvia

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