Right hand, meet left hand

[oursin]

Email from Amazon.co.uk (some auto thing I guess) inciting me to go comment on my recent purchases.

Including the recent biography of pioneer gay rights activist, Edward Carpenter*.

Not enough Duh in the world.

*ETA: which is, and I boggle some more, ranked.

Comments

Totally off-topic

[wordweaverlynn]

Re: Totally off-topic

[oursin]

Awwwww - adowwable hedgie!

Re: Totally off-topic

[shrewreader]

My favorite hedge-cheezburger is still

Re: Totally off-topic

[oursin]

Awwwwwww, blessssss!!

[rosathome]

I think I saw somewhere that the rankings had been (?were in the process of being?) reinstated, which might explain the last source of bogglement. But still.

[oursin]

Mine aren't, for the affected books, nor is Matt Houlbrook's for Queer London, which won a major award for historical writing in 2007.

[sollersuk]

I remember the rave reviews.

[ninebelow]

I think removal from ranking is based on category and it isn't classified as having anything to do with gay rights, only:

Biography > Historical > Britain > Military
Biography > Historical > Britain > Social & Urban History
Biography > Historical > Social & Urban History
Biography > Novelists, Poets & Playwrights > Poets
Biography > Political > Britain > Labour & Socialism
History > Political History > Democracy
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Society, Politics & Philosophy > Government & Politics > Political Science & Ideology > Socialism

[sollersuk]

If so, that makes it bad in a different-but-equal way; it's not just the ranking issue per se, it's the difficulty in finding books in those categories.

[oursin]

Military???!!!
The man was a lifelong pacifist!
(Was there another E Carpenter who was a general or something?)

[sollersuk]

To extend the metaphor of your heading:

The right hand and the left hand are connected via neurones that go to the brain. Obviously, if the brain is absent, there can be no connection!