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For bibliophiles, this Incidental Comics cartoon, by Grant Snider, of 8/21/12:

As someone who lives amidst piles of books, with more coming in all the time, the cartoon speaks to me.

[Yes, that sentence has a non-canonical SPAR, also known as a “dangling modifier”. I wrote the sentence without reflecting on it or noticing the non-canonical SPAR in it, but I’m sticking by it; see my discussion of acceptable as-a SPARs here.]

 

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