{"id":82,"date":"2003-12-11T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2003-12-11T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T20:25:00","slug":"82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Where our English majors find work (initially)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Days in the life of a Barnes & Noble clerk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now for the heresy. Barnes & Noble came to Pueblo a couple of years ago, and that was A Good Thing. Yes, there were independent bookstores, a couple of them–tiny, understocked, no doubt undercapitalized. One went out of business. (There was also one store from a smaller, Colorado chain.) The new B&N seems to be doing well. People are in there, reading magazines, looking at books, drinking espresso, just like in Th’ Big City. From a writer’s viewpoint, I like to see the business of book commmerce in motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where our English majors find work (initially) Days in the life of a Barnes & Noble clerk. Now for the heresy. Barnes & Noble came to Pueblo a couple of years ago, and that was A Good Thing. Yes, there were independent bookstores, a couple of them–tiny, understocked, no doubt undercapitalized. 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There are some earlier uses of \"Celtic,\" again referring to the Gauls, from the late 17th century.\"Celts\" begame fashionable as Noble Savages after Scotland, in\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":144,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=144","url_meta":{"origin":82,"position":4},"title":"Heresies Yesterday by the photocopier,\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Heresies Yesterday by the photocopier, Colleague A (Political Science) cornered me. 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