Actually, things-made-from books always upset me. I wind up thinking "But what if somebody wanted to READ that?"
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
Harmony ,'First Date'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Betsy HP - Dec 02, 2004 10:24:02 am PST #6502 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Ginger - Dec 02, 2004 10:31:01 am PST #6503 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Things made from books really disturb me. With very few exceptions, I think of books as sacred objects. There are a few books I think would have a higher calling as furniture, but a bedroom made entirely out of Ethan Frome is a pretty disturbing idea too.
Lilty Cash - Dec 02, 2004 10:32:18 am PST #6504 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
I wouldn't mind a bedskirt made of "The Virgin Bride Said Wow".
Pix - Dec 02, 2004 10:45:05 am PST #6505 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Ginger, have you read Anne Fadiman's essay "Never Do That to a Book" in Ex Libris?
It speaks exactly to that issue and is also very funny. (courtly love vs. carnal love of books!)
I adore Ex Libris. Every book lover should read it.
Beverly - Dec 02, 2004 10:46:43 am PST #6506 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Agreed. And thanks, Kristin, I'd forgotten the title--and I have it. ...Somewhere here.
Pix - Dec 02, 2004 10:53:07 am PST #6507 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
Every time I try to pick a favorite essay in that book, I end up listing almost all of them. "Nothing New Under the Sun" (in which she gently mocks the concept of plagiarism by footnoting practically every sentence in the essay) and "Marrying Libraries" are up there, though.
Promising to love each other for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health -- even promising to forsake all others -- had been no problem, but it was a good thing the Book of Common Prayer didn't say anything about marrying our libraries and throwing out the duplicates. That would have been a far more solemn vow, one that would probably have caused the wedding to grind to a mortifying halt.
So.True.
Betsy HP - Dec 02, 2004 11:00:42 am PST #6508 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Book of Common Prayer didn't say anything about marrying our libraries and throwing out the duplicates.
We did that before the wedding, actually. Except the "throwing out the duplicates", but believe me, interfiling was irrevocable enough.
Polter-Cow - Dec 02, 2004 11:04:17 am PST #6509 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Note to Stephen King fans: Big Steve will appear on The Daily Show tonight. Be sure to Tivo!
Thanks for the heads up, KB! I was planning on skipping tonight because I'm busy, but I gotta see this.
Connie Neil - Dec 02, 2004 11:16:24 am PST #6510 of 10002
brillig
I like the Fadiman habit of critiquing the menus at restaurants: "They put an S on shrimp to make it plural? Oh, for heaven's sake."
Pix - Dec 02, 2004 11:18:36 am PST #6511 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
"Sometimes I think my tombstone will read, 'She scanned well.'"