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Was just curious to know if anyone else ever feels guilty about spilling things on books. It's like somehow you taint all the beautiful words and images and characters. Books are like living creatures and it is not hard to feel sorry for the poor things. I particularly pity the books in public libraries. Alternatively, if one thinks of novels as collective artefacts, then the marking of them is part of their life-story, and besides, one can always purchase a new unblemished copy. Such are the delights of consumer culture.

― salexander, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

Books I've read in winter often have cocoa stains somewhere, not big spilled blobs but little thumbprints in the margins. And I'm always dropping ash in the gutters. But mostly I tell myself I'll remember having read this book in winter, perched on the window sill to smoke with mug of cocoa in hand. After all, I'm just as much a living thing as the book is and by reading it I'm weaving its contents into my own life. It's only fair for me to leave a few marks of my own.

No re-purchasing the unblemished unless I've completely ruined the book & pages are falling out or something.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

I managed to spill a load of fake blood over the first couple of pages of The Rebel, but it's transparent so it's fine. I got curry sauce on a book once. Not library books though.

In my city's University library there's a note in Anthony Burgess' book on James Joyce that claims to be written by Burgess himself whilst visiting. I like to think it's real.

― I'm a Problem for Anthony Blair (noodle vague), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Haha I read this ultimate tale of book soiling woe on a library blog today:
http://liberry.blogspot.com/2005/09/horse-pissperer.html

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

All my Famous Fives books have splatters of blood from youthful nose-bleeds and picked scabs.

― Navek Rednam (Navek Rednam), Thursday, 22 September 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

[spam]

― google spamming pain, Monday, 10 April 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Why didn't those librarians just throw the book in a garbage can? What was their problem?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

i spilled strawberry soda on one of my copies of 'being and time'. i think that's the only thing i've spilled on, though.

i was proud of it when it happened.

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

josh stop stealing my brane!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

i felt i was really starting to make my mark.

history was underway.

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

spaaaaam.

― sp, Monday, 5 June 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://houseofbaddesign.blogspot.com/assassination.jpg

― and what (ooo), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://houseofbaddesign.blogspot.com/translation.jpg

― and what (ooo), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

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