that had to hurt.

[verbminx]

Anthropodermic bibliopegy. That's books bound in human skin, for the unaware. Interesting article from Harvard Law School's newspaper, The Record. Reminded me instantly of a movie, both beautiful and disgusting, but I won't tell you which one; you'll know if you've seen it and it's a major spoiler if you haven't. (Hint: calligraphy.)

The good news is that apparently Ilse Koch, the Bitch/Beast of Buchenwald, probably did not have a lampshade made of human skin, as previously believed. (What she did have is bad enough, and there are disturbing pics at those links. Fair warning. The Koch family's reign at Buchenwald was considered bad even by Nazi standards.)

And, I'm trying to read The Crying of Lot 49. About halfway through. "The Courier's Tragedy" is brilliant and hilarious. I've never read Pynchon (!) but have been meaning to because of a commentary on Mason & Dixon in, um, must have been Michael Dirda's Bound to Please. I am late on this bus, but you know, while everyone else was reading that, I was tracking down OOP Angela Carter... way before all the U.S. rereleases....

/snob

Here is a fun Lot 49 Site at Pomona College.

Now, I must, at some point, drag myself out into the cold to go to the library.

Comments

[audesapere.livejournal.com]

there IS something fetishistic about it.

you mean like culture & imperialism / postcolonialist perspectives thereof a la Said (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679750541/104-2573749-8063100?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance) ?