Sunday, April 09, 2006

This book is bound in human skin. The practice of
binding books in this way, called 'anthropodermic
bibliopegy', was not uncommon at the time of the French
Revolution. Someone has suggested that this practice be
revived and that the unacknowledged borrowing of another's
work should be bound in the plagiarizer's own skin.
Ben Domenech is said to be strongly opposed to this idea.

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