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05-30-2006, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
You do know Lovecraft's Necronomicon is not real, right?
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You'd be surprised how many people think it is. Actually, Jillian, no, you wouldn't be. Oh, how I chuckle when people say they've actually read it.
Anyway, you'd have to treat a book like that carefully, wouldn't you... I mean, wouldn't want to damage the spine....
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05-30-2006, 11:02 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: London
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Fascinating. I suppose it could be creepy, but I am curious as to what these books feel like.
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05-30-2006, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: San Diego, CA. USA
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Very interesting but nasty as well. I wouldn't like to touch one maybe if I had like gloves on I would like to go through it. I'm so girly
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05-30-2006, 04:52 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Virulent Dryad
Fascinating. I suppose it could be creepy, but I am curious as to what these books feel like.
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I would think that they would feel a lot like leather due to the fact that they seem to go through the same processes and the fact that leather is animal skin.
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05-31-2006, 08:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 158
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ayase
Definately! They can jiggle too.
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Im sorry I thought that was hilarious.
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Ok so moving on:
I dont like the idea of reading a book made of human skin. It's disgusting. Extremely old human skin must smell extremely gross, and feel very strange. I'd have to read the book with my head above the toilet bowl.
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06-06-2006, 06:21 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Tennessee
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I don't think I would be able to touch it. I would just stare at it, and maybe poke it.
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06-06-2006, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Northwestern Washington
Posts: 921
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If I ever write a book (especially a memoir!) I want it to be bound in me when I die.
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06-06-2006, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 186
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I like that idea. To bad I didn't get to choose what the book that published one of my poems was bound in.
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06-06-2006, 08:23 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Quick question...
Was the book with your poem called Twilight Musings?
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06-13-2006, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 113
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Thats quite interesting, hmmm maybe i could write a book about my life, and have it bound in ym skin when I die. Perfect thing for your family to remember you by =)
I am really in the mood to watch evil dead now =P
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06-13-2006, 10:35 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Behind you, possibly making sweet love to random pieces of furniture while singing Dragostea Din Tei
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Hmmm...
That's what I'll do when I die...have a book of my own raps bound in my buttcheeks, informing readers to 'kiss the cover'.
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06-13-2006, 10:42 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 113
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Black Widow
Hmmm...
That's what I'll do when I die...have a book of my own raps bound in my buttcheeks, informing readers to 'kiss the cover'.
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XD I like this idea
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06-13-2006, 11:10 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Well, if I'm ever in a gruesome car accident and need my leg amputated, I know what to do with the skin. Think about it - it's a keepsake!
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06-14-2006, 04:04 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Shady Spring, WV (The whole state is a dump)
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Strange, yet oddly intriguing (as most strange things are).
This reminds me of cannibalism. Oh, horrible, horrible cannibalism.
I think it would be cool if you had a scar or something that was visible on the cover. Yeah....
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08-20-2006, 08:18 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Behind you
Posts: 493
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Thats really cool, yet just a tad on the disgusting part. I'd like to read those books for the feel, I wouldn't care how boring they were!
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08-20-2006, 11:52 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 18
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Hmm, if I get the money, I'm gonna try to buy up all of those books.
I would really like to own one.
And happy 100th post the_ink_bleeds_faster :P
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08-21-2006, 02:14 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: a russian, vienna-educated, living in the Netherlands. beat that.
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I would donate my skin to that! (But only if they promise to take it off after I'm dead.)
A robber's memoirs bound in his own skin? Now if that book doesn't have a ghost inclusive, then nothing does.
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08-21-2006, 02:54 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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bound in skin vs. written on skin...
Early versions of The Bible were written on calfskin that had been oiled, called vellum.
Parchment came later. Sometimes the skin was taken from stillborn or even unborn animals.
I wonder if any of these books are written on human vellum?
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08-25-2006, 08:30 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: GA, USA
Posts: 78
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That's somewhat amusing, very interesting, and a little bit disturbing. Reminds me of all those emo kids who cut words into their wrists and such for some reason. Not saying I don't have my own scars, but they were for a purpose, not decoration or an excuse to call myself goth. The thought of binding a book in human skin is pretty cool. I'm sure it'd freak a lot of people out...I'd just like to know what human leather feels like. You'd think it'd be pretty smooth, since our skin isn't very thick. Compared to calf skin, I'm sure it'd have to be really delicate. Hmmm.
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09-22-2006, 10:55 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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I can just imagine the medical text's section about the skin. "The flesh is covered in a fine, multilayered organ called the skin........ Reference: cover."
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09-22-2006, 10:56 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Human vellum bound in human leather...
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09-27-2006, 10:23 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Cumbria, United Kingdom
Posts: 1,153
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wow i want my diarys in that when i die... adds the personal touch ;-)
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11-01-2006, 06:31 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Portland Oregon
Posts: 23
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*shrug*
Maybe it's because I have absolutely, well.....no... have very little regard for human life. To me...it's skin. I don't find it any more gruesome than animal leather, and I love leather. So, it's not so gross to me. :3
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11-02-2006, 06:05 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: the graveyard
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::shudders:: Am I the only one grossed out by this? Ick. This is why I'm not even an organ donor. I'd like to keep my body intact in death, thank you.
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11-17-2006, 12:02 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 100
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I'd pay to have skin grafts removed from my upper legs and made into leather for that diary/USB solidstate drive I want.
Sounds like fun.
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