(January 8, 2012 at 10:27 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: You know, I actually erased a paragraph I was going to put up...
The idea of carving into books horrifies me as a bibliophile, and in a knee-jerk nearly-religious way. I don't know if any sects of Christianity had this, but in both of the synagogues I went to, books (especially holy books, obviously) were taught to be something to be revered and respected, even paperbacks. The written word is important. I'm okay folding the corner of a page down on a paperback novel now, but hard-bound books? No way. Can't get over it.
I can't even do that! I have about 10 bookmarks around my house so I never have to dog-ear anything.
I just joined my local library and I'm disgusted how people treat things that don't belong to them - dog-eared pages, pen marks, one of the books I got had a lot of pages that the bottom was torn off (it hadn't taken any of the words off, but it made me angry nonetheless) and the DVD's I borrowed are nearly all so badly scratched it's near impossible to watch them. Grrrr!
thesummerqueen Wrote:When I stare at these images and try to imagine how they were done, I get a vision of me standing over them with a scalpel and it makes me physically ill.
I agree! They're still pretty cool, I just couldn't do it myself.
"No-one who decides that scientific evidence is not for him and that his own experience or the stories of others is the be all and end all of deciding what's true ever has the right to call people searching for reliable, repeatable evidence narrow-minded. That is hypocrisy of the most laughable kind." Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind.
