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"Excavating Words"

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"Excavating Words"
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Our teachers encouraged us to write in the school textbooks. Much fun was had leaving cryptic messages and generally wrong information for the next year that got them.
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 12:46 pm
I wasn't allowed to write in my schoolbooks . . . ever. We got in big trouble for fucking with textbooks.
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Yeah, so did we - we had to sign our names in them and at the end of the year the teachers would check them and note damages. But we had to write all over the stuff WE bought. Fuckers.
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 4:04 pm
(January 9, 2012 at 12:46 pm)Shell B Wrote: We got in big trouble for fucking with textbooks.

...and so you should have! That sounds awfully painful...
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 4:08 pm
ROFLOL

Not even Shell loves books THAT much...does she?
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 5:07 pm
regarding destruction of these particular books....

meh, there's lots of books that I applaud turning into art for various reasons.

Bibles and Qurans - for the obvious.
Tax Law Books - again for the obvious
Outdated Text Books - you know, the kind that are completely inaccurate due to many factors.
Outdated Encyclopedias - for the same reason.
Phone Books - They're about good for nothing.
Tolstoy - oh I'm JUST KIDDING! (never much of a fan though)
EPA Manuals - They're huge and mostly useless
did I mention Bibles?



you get the idea. They're books, not human beings, and I'm reasonably sure people will keep writing and believing nonsense with or without a tiny handful of useless ones.

kudos to the artist for thinking outside the box.
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 6:02 pm (This post was last modified: January 9, 2012 at 6:02 pm by Faith No More.)
I could stand to see Jane Austen's books carved to pieces.
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 7:09 pm
(January 9, 2012 at 6:02 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I could stand to see Jane Austen's books carved to pieces.

Have you ever bothered to read them?
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 10:05 pm
What the hell, Faith?
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RE: "Excavating Words"
January 9, 2012 at 10:09 pm (This post was last modified: January 9, 2012 at 10:11 pm by Cyberman.)
(January 9, 2012 at 7:09 pm)Shell B Wrote:
(January 9, 2012 at 6:02 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I could stand to see Jane Austen's books carved to pieces.

Have you ever bothered to read them?

I have, at least. I well remember trying to plough through 'Mansfield Park' at school. Maybe it's just me, or the fact that the book was imposed on us as a study text, but when nothing at all had happened for the first gawd-alone- knows-how-many chapters my tedium-numbed brain woke to find my subconscious idly plotting out the perfect murder. Sorry and all; novels like that are responsible for words such as 'turgid' being in the English language. Also possibly 'murder'.

Does anyone get the impression I'm not much of a fan?
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