re the bookshop: there's a long tradition of this kind of thing. IIRC it was pioneered in Metternich's Austria c.1815, where the secret police would allow certain cafes to stock foreign (hence liberal and seditious) papers and allegedly banned publications. They'd then watch to see who read them. Our own spooks have been known to do similar things.
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Date: 2005-08-05 02:24 pm (UTC)