I was in the Oldham branch of Waterstones on Saturday. It is only a small branch, but I would imagine it has the same special offer displays as pretty much every Waterstones up and down the country. Well, they had a selection of "Spiritual" books - I would imagine that sales of such books are positively correlated with an individual's perception of his lot during the economic crisis.
Anyway, prominent (at least in my eyes) in this display was our old friend The Alchemist. It crossed my mind to perpetrate some evil deed on these books, maybe burning them, or knocking them off the shelf, or at the very least to turn the top copy around so that nobody would be entreated to buy this drivel.
But I did nothing.... Not sure if this now makes me a part of the Coelho machine - am I responsible for the people of Oldham being subjected to this "sub-GCSE Philosophy" drivel???
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'It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph' Rather than read Che's "The Motorcycle Diaries" maybe we should have gone for "Guerilla Warfare"!
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