{"id":2402,"date":"2021-10-12T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/12\/withdrawn-from-circulation-2\/"},"modified":"2021-10-12T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:06:27","slug":"withdrawn-from-circulation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/12\/withdrawn-from-circulation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Withdrawn from Circulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The very best books, or so it seems, are usually the ones that get withdrawn from circulation in local public libraries, while the trash remains on the shelves. The librarians&#39; bad judgment, however,&#0160; redounds to my benefit as I am able to purchase fine books for fifty cents a pop. A while back, the literary luminaries at the Apache Junction Public Library saw fit to remove Linda Hamalian, <em>A Life of Kenneth&#0160;<\/em><em>Rexroth<\/em>&#0160;(Norton, 1991) from the shelves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c026bdef848e5200c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rexroth and record player\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c026bdef848e5200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c026bdef848e5200c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Rexroth and record player\" \/><\/a>Why, I have no idea. (It wasn&#39;t a second copy.) But I snatched it up. A find to rejoice over. A&#0160;&#0160; beautifully produced first edition of over 400 pages, the Antiquarian Booksellers&#39; Association of America wanted $25 for it. I shall set it on the Beat shelf next to Kerouac&#39;s&#0160;<em>Dharma Bums<\/em>&#0160;wherein <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/kenneth-rexroth\">Rexroth<\/a> figures as Reinhold Cacoethes. I hope the two volumes refrain from breaking each other&#39;s spines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Moral: Always search diligently through biblic aisles and piles, remainder bins, and the like. It is amazing what treasure lies among the trash.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Conservatives, especially, are bound to find gems. The reason being that the tribe of librarians, dominated as they are by the distaff contingent, reliably tilt left and are eager to remove from the shelves what their shallow pates consider offensive materials.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very best books, or so it seems, are usually the ones that get withdrawn from circulation in local public libraries, while the trash remains on the shelves. The librarians&#39; bad judgment, however,&#0160; redounds to my benefit as I am able to purchase fine books for fifty cents a pop. A while back, the literary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/12\/withdrawn-from-circulation-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Withdrawn from Circulation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,289,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliophilia","category-books","category-kerouac-and-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}