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Libraries fight economic woes with information
Thu, 05/22/2008 - 05:29 — Blake
I've been seeing This Message more and more lately: "When the economy drops, people use libraries more," said State Librarian Annie Norman. She then offered this quote from Anne Herbert, in "The Whole Earth Catalog": "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries."
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time of no money....
"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries" ? really? from "The Whole Earth Cataloge"? Citation please...
'cause I think it's from "Freewheeling Frank" of the FFFB graphix and the substitute for libraries was "dope".
Yes? No?
Lots of references to the quote online
but only Wikipedia gave a citation:
# ^ attribution to "The Next Whole Earth Catalog", (1980), p 331. Derived from the Gilbert Shelton quote, "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."[1]
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Herbert
"Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds"
-Candide by Voltaire
The Yale Book of Quotations
The Yale Book of Quotations says yes, it's in the catalog, and source was FFFB
There was a library
There was a library awareness campaign (California? / LA?) that was similar....but I can't find that it was ever a S. Brand / WEC item.
libraries = dope = funny
I love that someone didn't know the original quote and now "libraries" is a synonym for "dope." Drug humor is funny.
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