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Yes, it’s a Spinathon!  What, you ask, is a Spinathon?  I have no idea, but we’re having one.
Okay, okay.  In order to raise some money for medical expenses (Reesa, if you recall, just had a radical mastectomy, which is major surgery, which they charge money for),  volunteers are going to be spinning yarn (or knitting) [...]

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This section is called “The form of value or exchange-value”
Page 47: “Commodities come into the world in the shape of use-values, articles, or goods, such as iron, linen, corn, &c.  This is their plain, homely, bodily form.  They are, however commodities, only because they are something two-fold, both objects of utility, and, at the same [...]

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Reesa is recovering from surgery.  Part of the recovery process has involved some household rearranging that made it impossible for me to write.  Reesa and Nathan, while dealing with everything else, put enough effort into the problem that it’s now been solved, and I’m back to writing.  That she took the trouble to fix this [...]

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Page 45: “If one coat represents x days’ labour, two coats represent 2x days’ labour, and so on.  But assume that the duration of the labour necessary for the production of a coat becomes doubled or halved.  In the first case, one coat is worth as much as two coats were before; [...]

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Page 44: “Just as, therefore, in viewing the coat and linen as values, we abstract from their different use-values, so it is with the labour represented by those values: we disregard the difference between its useful forms, weaving and tailoring.  As the use-values, coat and linen, are combinations of special productive activities with cloth and [...]

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This book will be out next January.  Let me get my major complaint out of the way: if you are going form a book as a series of journal entries, you need to always be aware of the state of mind of the writer at the time of making the entry.  For [...]

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For those who aren’t following the situation with Reesa, we got the pathology today from the tests after the mastectomies, and all tests are negative.  All indications are they got all the cancer.
We are very happy people here.
I will probably be falling into little pieces very soon.

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Page 43: “The use-value, coat, linen, &c., i.e., the bodies of commodities, are combinations of two elements–matter and labour.  If we take away the useful labour expended upon them, a material substratum is always left, which is furnished by Nature without the help of man.  The latter can work only as Nature does, that is [...]

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This is to announcement my immediate retirement as a science-fiction writer in order to pursue a career playing professional bingo.  I also plan to go into investment banking as a sidelight.  My hope is that this new career will give me more time to practice the accordion while writing occasional articles for National Review.

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