https://booksquare.com/file-under-it-could-happen-to-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=file-under-it-could-happen-to-you Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:48:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://booksquare.com/file-under-it-could-happen-to-you/#comment-118333 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:48:11 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/02/07/1798/#comment-118333 My, my, Bella, such cynicism. I am impressed. Of course you’ve been to the British Museum where chunks of history are strewn about the basement because it’s clearly too much bother to dust them and put protective glass around them. I won’t suggest that some countries have more antiquities than they can manage, but David’s museum bowling tournament has interesting merit. Though it’s unclear what will constitute a gutter ball.

]]> https://booksquare.com/file-under-it-could-happen-to-you/#comment-118328 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:12:11 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/02/07/1798/#comment-118328 I noticed that Mr. Flynn was ‘banned from the museum for the near future.’ Perhaps the museum needs time to organize a tournament along the lines of lawn bowling, indoors of course, wherein patrons could slide across the polished marble floors into stacks of Chinese vases.

]]> https://booksquare.com/file-under-it-could-happen-to-you/#comment-118327 Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:18:09 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/02/07/1798/#comment-118327 You can tell this is a foreign story, because if it had happened in the US, the guy who fell down the stairs would have sued the museum for not having a handrail. I’m surprised some enterprising thief hadn’t stolen those vases by now. You’d think the museum’s insurer would have insisted they be secured in place.

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