Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:14:29 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The binding will not hold, pages fall apart
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> erjablow at netacc.net 03/11/03 03:11PM
>You really should be more literary:

Hey, I tried with the subject line.

>
>Books fall apart; the binding cannot hold.
>Mediocrity is loosed upon the world.
>The acid-filled pulp is loosed, and everywhere
>The ceremony of craftsmanship is drowned;
>The best lack all readership, while the worst
>Are full of passionate press-flackery.
>
>"The Second Binding", after William Butler Yeats.

Very good.

mjw