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From: Ulrika O'Brien 
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Ulrika O'Brien  wrote:
>nancyl@universe.digex.net (Nancy Lebovitz) wrote:

>>A little thought would have shown her that convention fandom
>>recquires both spare time and spare money, and the amount of
>>activity in dealers' rooms would have suggested that fans mostly
>>aren't living in poverty.
>
>Sure, but fans are not prone to displaying their wealth in
>standard, Yuppie ways, so it does require a perceptive eye
>and a good ethnographer to notice it.  

And now that I think of it, I wonder if this isn't part of what
McCrumb isn't turning her nose up *at*, that she somehow thinks
that it is clearly *better* to collect china and American
quilts than to have a complete run of signed Heinlein firsts, 
and your very own electro-stencil cutter, even if they have
comparable resale value.  

-- 
"Criticism is the only known antidote to error." -- David Brin

	Ulrika O'Brien***ulrika@aol.com***caveat lector



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