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This subsection is “Quantitative determination of Relative value”
Page 53: “Every commodity, whose value it is intended to express, is a useful object of a given quantity, as 15 bushels of corn, or 100 lbs of coffee.  And a given quantity of any commodity contains a definite quantity of human labour.  The value-form must therefore not [...]

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This subsection is called “The Relative form of value” and begins with ” (a.) The nature and import of this form.”
Page 49: “In order to discover how the elementary expression of the value of a commodity lies hidden in the value-relation of the two commodities, we must, in the first place, consider the latter entirely [...]

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Arrived in Minneapolis after an easy drive.  I’m at the hotel now.  I’ve spoken to one offspring and two grandchildren.  All is well.

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Since I can’t sell my Vegas house in the current market, it’s up for rent.  Thanks to BJ, Anne Gray, and Neil for much helping in getting into shape to rent out.  The Craigs List ad is here.

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The other day I was listening to a movie review on NPR.  I don’t know what the movie was, but the reviewer, in the course of panning it, explained that some secondary characters, however good, just don’t make good leads.  He said, “Some really terrific supporting players maybe aren’t cut out to be stars. [...]

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Special Brust Ego-Gratification Issue, on account of, you know, my ego is so desperately in need of gratification.

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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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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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