In a message dated 12/2/2007 3:25:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. You can run across a paper back at a garage sale or a used book store and pay a quarter, or a couple of dollars for it. 2. You can go to a specialty used bookstore and find a first edition autographed for $1,450. The un autographed one is $450. How does that change the quality of the book? Are there TWO qualities to the book: Physical and spiritual? Does one of these qualities surpass the other? Is the monetary values a useless quality? Is there only ONE quality to each object? Anything else is superficial? Is the sentimental value of the autograph more valuable to you than the money (or the work it will take to obtain that money)? That really depends on your social status. If you really evaluate the book on your own terms (independent of any social constraints), you won't care a whit about the book's condition, only its content. But will you still care about the autograph? Actually, you could say that the book's just a bunch of pages with ink on them. Would that change its quality (or your perception of its quality)? **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
