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like there’s not
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all the stuff | have to read.

But I’ve made some inroads. That
stack of Wireds used to be six months

   

| fed the beast again today.

| didn’t want to, but | found myself
doing it anyway. You know what I’m
talking about. You go to the library to
do some research and wind up coming
home with an entire stack of books to
place in the maw of that growing pile of
books and magazines beside your
bed.

My beast has grown out of control
and unchecked for months while I’ve
been in school, and now that summer
is here, | was hoping to make the pile
smaller, not larger.

It’s not like there isn’t enou

: get to it, so caught up am lin the’
pursuit of...well, you know.
| wonder if there’s any way to break

 
       
 
 

this summer—the last four f
summer Ill have while going
school—would allow me the time to
indulge in a bit of power-recreation.

clearing through that pile ar
in this, the pseudo-annual ‘summer
reading issue. Things like Bill Gate’s

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- getting caught in the gears of i
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Sy
the next three month
books I’ve picked up
or through book-of-the-n
clubs, there’s at least 20 books that
I’ve borrowed from friends—from Guy
Gavriel Kay’s The Fionavar Tapestry,
to Bertrand Russell's Why | am ota
Christian, to Arthur Siegel's Poli .
and the Media in Canada.
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inspot tea. and Joyce
slogged her way through in Search of

a New Left, but this book special no time to read, let alone write about it.

seems a little thin. This is a roundabout way of apolo-
I’m not going to blame people who izing to all those of you out there who
said they would get reviews inand really really wanted to see a revi
eck, I’m the worst offender, = wha Shr
t beast beside my bed holds at photographer's Swee
st a dozen books that were sup- Encounters of the Fourth Ki
inherited and the last three months of. P0S€d to be read and reviewed for this apg I'l find more time over the ne
Wired, to sundry others, including a ue. three months to read than | have in the
couple Saturday Nights, a Vancouver : h en past month. (Has it already been a
Magazine or two, Giest, Discourse, a ail a tips ae eta in the month since the semester ended?)
whole pile of CG/ and Adobe maga-... CO Ree CS And maybe, just maybe, we'll
zines. Sigh. : Society ‘ie a poe ete) summer reading issue at the
earning less and less. I’ve ys
Let’s not forget the newsprint, all summer.
those Afro Newses, Geoee Straights, _ believed that people can accomplish But | doubt it. (Like we'll have

~' whatever they set their mindto.! also time.
Sierra Club Newsletters and Vaneau ive that this pursult of material 1s

    
 
    
   

   
  

 
  
 

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