<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Sep 29, 2558 BE, at 9:07 AM, Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Sep 29, 2558 BE, at 6:12 AM, Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:31 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>We already have excellent objective standards in literature: sales receipts.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I would not consider sales receipts to be literature... though I guess</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>your accountant can tell quite a story when all those moments are</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>reviewed for a year. :)</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I didn't read that as Spike calling sales receipts literature, but as him saying they indicated a piece of literature's quality. Ditto for other arts. I'm not saying I agree, but were it true than Shakespeare definitely sells. And so does Beethoven. (Not sure what William has against either since both are far more popular outside the cultural elites and professorial class than, say, Brecht (in drama) and Schoenberg (in music), though those two are not lacking in the sales department.)</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>haha, yeah... you read it correctly. </span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>:)</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span> I did a double-take and wanted</span><br><span>to share the idea of sales receipt as a tiny bit of 'literature.'</span><br><span>Just last night I accepted a receipt at point of sale (cash) and put</span><br><span>it directly into the trash. I felt bad for the senseless waste that</span><br><span>transaction represents. I knew, however, that the protocol cannot be</span><br><span>challenged ad-hoc: it must be a cultural change to stop generating</span><br><span>those useless scraps of paper.</span><br></blockquote><br><div>Many places now ask if the customer want a printed receipt. Places using Square also just email a receipt, so nothing gets printed -- unless there's a special request.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Ust/e/B00J6HPX8M/</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>