Search on the following items - Cody's Bookshops, the film Berkley in the Sixties, Fred Cody, Mark Kitchel and study the photograph. The expletives are produced at an appropriate time, by appropriate people. Is it possible to fight the approaching darkness without expletives - well, there is the example of Nirad C. Chowdhury. Do check some of his books and see if the protest literature are different or SIMILAR in these two extreme cases. A note on the Photograph - "The restrooms at Cody's Telegraph Avenue store were equipped with blackboards and chalk."
Read the introduction to the New York Review Classics reprint here -
Nirad C. Chowdhury
Here is a quote from the writing of Cody's Bookstore owner:"Cody’s maintained its reputation as a great venue for scholarly titles until the very end. One of the saddest moments in my career was in early 2006. Unlike most retailers who put excess inventory on sale, bookstores can return books that are no longer selling to publishers. We did this almost daily based on lists that were kicked out by the computer of titles with no sales for the previous nine months. I was pulling returns that day and noticed that on the returns list was our last copy of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I was stunned to think that I was taking the most important work of modern philosophy out of the store, but it hadn’t sold in over a year. I left it on the shelf anyway. But that was when I realized that our time was up. Six months later we closed the Telegraph Avenue store."
Read the introduction to the New York Review Classics reprint here -
Nirad C. Chowdhury
Here is a quote from the writing of Cody's Bookstore owner:"Cody’s maintained its reputation as a great venue for scholarly titles until the very end. One of the saddest moments in my career was in early 2006. Unlike most retailers who put excess inventory on sale, bookstores can return books that are no longer selling to publishers. We did this almost daily based on lists that were kicked out by the computer of titles with no sales for the previous nine months. I was pulling returns that day and noticed that on the returns list was our last copy of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I was stunned to think that I was taking the most important work of modern philosophy out of the store, but it hadn’t sold in over a year. I left it on the shelf anyway. But that was when I realized that our time was up. Six months later we closed the Telegraph Avenue store."
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