USE YOUR IMAGINATION

Some people can't imagine a reason to purchase a book describing how
to make a methamphetamine lab, or why the Tattered Cover should carry
such books. Good heavens, don't these people have imaginations? Here
are several reasons. A murder mystery writer (I am one) wishes to use
a meth lab as a plot twist. A vice cop wants to know what he's
looking for. A screenplay writer uses meth as the one poison that
kills the invader aliens in her science fiction movie. Or a person is
simply what Kipling calls "The Elephant's Child," an insatiably
curious person. Should I have to get a permit to buy a "dangerous"
book? Should I go before some sort of government panel to justify my
desire to read? Horrors! The Tattered Cover is making the necessary
stand that a book is innocent, and anyone should be able to read
without government interference or oversight. Bless you, Tattered
Cover, and the fight you're making for freedom.

BONNIE RAMTHUN,

Erie