Term of the day: "anthropodermic bibliopegy"
- A 300-year-old French ledger bound in human skin has turned up in England.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
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[The novel] is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience... For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant act. Because there are so many varieties of human experience, so many kinds of interaction between humans, and so many ways of creating patterns in the novel that can’t be created in a short story, a play, a poem or a movie. The novel, simply, offers more opportunities for a reader to understand the world better, including the world of artistic creation. That sounds pretty grand, but I think it’s true. -- Don DeLillo
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It is uncommon, but not unheard of, in modern times. Occasionally people request in their will to have a book written by themselves, or a favorite book, bound in their own skin after they pass away.
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