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Quoth Ellis, paraphrasing Alan Moore

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Quoth Ellis, paraphrasing Alan Moore:

...you could go into a comics shop with a pound and come out with "a real slab of culture. And often very good culture."

While he of course was referring to comic books, we can abstract from that a more general question:

Where can you go, and what can you purchase for $1.00 USD that is a slice of culture? What can you purchase for $1.00 USD that can change your view of the world?

I remain clueless.

-m