<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451951" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Academics Are Daft</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wanted to quote striking lines from a book <br>by someone called Richard D-v-np-rt-Hin-s <br>who left a teaching position delineating a <br>social history of drugs then saw no words <br>of his book may be quoted except by <br>express permission of the author </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With trepidation I copied only part of the <br>author's name not daring to mention the <br>book's title for fear of being pursued for <br>quoting it - a light went up - no wonder <br>people don't read, worries about copy-<br>right means we can't do anything </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a text we come across, luckily I bought <br>this book through a library donation, paid only <br>half a dollar for it - so there, getting to read it <br>for next to nothing - I'm glad that most people <br>detest reading, intellectual snobbery protecting <br>author's rights makes it inaccessible </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being boring to boot except to a bookworm, <br>nobody else interested, keeping it exclusive <br>demanding payment for repeating any word <br>from it authors make sure nobody interested <br>in a factual account of cold facts - if they wish <br>to remain incognito, ignored by the masses</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is fine with me; I may not breathe a word <br>about this fellow's research and conclusions <br>he might as well have buried his gift under a <br>bushel for fear of anyone reading it without <br>paying exorbitant amounts and that for stuff <br>that is not entertaining - seems to me </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Academics are rather daft - he used to be <br>a lecturer…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saturday 19 May 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451951" data-title="Academics Are Daft de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="Wanted to quote striking lines from a book by someone called Richard D-v-np-rt-Hin-s who left a teaching position delineating a social history of drugs then saw no words of his book may be quoted except by express permission of the author W..."></div> </div> </div>

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