Rand in the UK

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 03 2001 - 05:13:26 MDT


At 09:37 AM 9/3/01 +0100, Charlie wrote:

>> >> IIRC Ayn Rand never got published in the UK.

>> Then what mad universe did this daggy old 1961 Panther bodicebuster edition
>> of THE FOUNTAINHEAD come from?

>That edition was published
>before I was born. I've never seen a UK edition; I'm 37.

1) The UK didn't exist before you were born?

2) They don't have secondhand book stores in the UK?

3) UK bookstores never import US editions? (Like this here Signet/NAL ATLAS
SHRUGGED?)

4) Then what's all this old stuff, eh? eh?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/202-8407461-0138263

(Well, probably not UK editions, it's true. Smuggled in by the
International Objectivist Conspiracy.)

Damien Broderick
[still sniggering happily over Charlie's wonderful tale of the Artful
Conscript Programmer]



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