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Subject:Re: LICENSE for WRITING required in LA From:"Susan K. Sylvia" <susieq -at- AIMQUEST -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:00:11 -0800
At 11:27 AM 11/11/97 -0800, Wally Glassett wrote:
>Huber, Mike wrote:
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>> Unfortunately, this one is true.
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>> Technicaly, if you keep a diary in LA and eventualy use material from
>> it
>> in work that gets published, you owe back taxes, and penalties. This
>> one
>> is quite absurd, and will be overturned, but it is, at this point,
>> true.
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>> LA, rather recently, legalized the reciting of poetry in public.
>> Bizzare
>> place.
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>Maybe the 'good fathers of the city' will take this to its logical
>conclusion: levying taxes on thinking about writing.
>
>Even though I was born and raised in the LA area and have no complaints
>about that, I left the area as soon as I could and have never wanted to
>go back - Mondo Bizarro indeed!...
>
>Wally Glassett
>
I don't think bizarre begins to cover it. La-La Land of liberalism run
amok sees fit to "legalize" the First Amendment to the Constitution by
allowing public reading of poetry....?
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